Culled Quotes

#1. The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Fred Allen

#2. A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Instead, the FHA adopted a racial policy that could well have been culled from the Nuremberg laws.

Charles Abrams

#3. After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.

Nicholas Sparks

#4. Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

William Shakespeare

#5. The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.

Jason Calacanis

#6. The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

Laura Palmer

#7. If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

Rand Paul

#8. Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

Michael Pollan

#9. The language spoken by New Yorkers was changing almost daily. Phrases culled from British thieves' cant intermingled with German, Dutch, Yiddish, and other immigrant languages to form "flash," a

Lyndsay Faye

#10. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

James Lovelock

#12. What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.

Dorothea Dix

#13. Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

Tristram Stuart

#14. Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#15. This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.
[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"]

Emmanuel Aghado

#16. People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned and separated their garbage, culled and collected it.

Nell Freudenberger

#17. Wonderful," Rodney said again. "I wonder how many more of our former allies are going to have been Culled like this?" "That's what I like about you, McKay," Sheppard said. "You're an optimist.

Jo Graham

#18. The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.

Hope Mirrlees

#20. And often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?

Grace Metalious

#21. If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.

J.K. Rowling

#22. I like journalists.

George Wendt

#23. No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Walter Pater

#24. 'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

Katie Leung

#25. Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

Gail Simmons

#26. Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated.

Annie Sprinkle

#28. Love makes people beautiful, beautiful in the fact that those who are stricken by love become blind. Not being able to see the evils and pain in the world, that's the part that makes people beautiful on the inside.

Shannan Jacoby

#29. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Francis Bacon

#30. We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.

Robin McKinley

#31. "Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

Paul Kingsnorth

#32. The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

Kenneth Edmonds

#33. I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

Ariel Garten