Damper Quotes

#1. Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Herbert Hoover

#2. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

John Travolta

#3. An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

Don Kardong

#4. Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.

Ellen Key

#5. What are you running from?"
That put a damper on the fluttering lashes. "Columbia House Music Club," I said, recovering my snarkiness quickly. "Oh, sure, they say they'll sell you six CDs for a penny, but they'll hunt you down like the hounds of hell if you miss the payments.

Molly Harper

#6. Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

John Donne

#7. The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Gary Hamel

#8. Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

Phil Rizzuto

#9. Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that.

Jhonen Vasquez

#10. Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

Ardyth Kennelly

#11. Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

Adriana Lima

#12. All the same, we should get to bed," whispered Hermione. "It wouldn't do to oversleep tomorrow."
"No," agreed Ron. "A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom's mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding.

J.K. Rowling

#13. I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

Mindy Kaling

#14. Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

Barbara Corcoran

#15. You're a phoenix, Zane. Rising from the ashes. And all I do is make you burn.

Abigail Roux

#16. Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist; you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Tave drew nearer, his pace never slowing. He continued with his rapid speed even as he approached the shallows of the beach. What, did he think he could swim on land? If so, the Ujals seriously needed to reconsider their leadership choices.

Erin Tate

#18. Yet he knew that if she wavered he would never forgive her; she would drop at once from her high estate into those depths in his opinion where the dull average of both sexes sprawled for ever in indiscriminate heaps.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#19. I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.

Remi Kanazi

#20. I placed a bowl of herbs and ointments in the window of my bedroom, and let the scented breeze carry him away ...

Sherry Jones

#21. I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

Madonna

#22. The road to creativity passes ...

Ernest Becker

#23. The end is never a surprise. People say Don't tell me, Don't spoil it, then later say, If only I'd known.

Julia Pierpont

#24. The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Frank Luntz