Collective Nouns Quotes

#1. I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

John P. Wheeler III

#2. Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.

Harry Crosby

#3. Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.

Frederick The Great

#4. I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

Evan Rachel Wood

#5. I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.

Chuck Noll

#6. And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
No words to say what it really is, that it is not
Superficial but a visible core, then there is
No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.

John Ashbery

#7. To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

Edward Hoagland

#8. Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

W. H. Auden

#9. I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Alison Krauss

#10. Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices.

Jenna Marbles

#11. It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

Mitt Romney

#12. It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.

Denis Johnson

#13. Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

David Denby

#14. Prayer makes coffee shops of our souls, places that celebrate and savor the presence and lordship of God in our lives. It must be unceasing and constant. It must become who we are.

Tyler Blanski

#15. You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

Fran Tarkenton