Cement Mixer Quotes

#1. Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

Fran Lebowitz

#4. A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

Ronnie Corbett

#5. But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

#6. Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?

Shelley Long

#7. Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.

Jay Bakker

#8. Travel Tip: Relax. It's not a crime to want to sit in a cafe and not take a walking our of all those historic monuments in your peripheral vision.

Vivian Swift

#9. I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.

George Saunders

#10. I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.

Anita Shreve

#11. I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Doris Lessing

#12. Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Billy Graham

#13. Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.

James Willard Schultz