Downplaying Covid Quotes

#1. If a President must constantly remind the people that we're at war, then we're not.

Bill Maher

#2. My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

David Guterson

#3. Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

Al Roker

#4. He wanted to taste nothing unless it was the sweetness of her mouth, the musk of her arousal, the salt of her tears, wanted to touch nothing unless it was the silk of her hair, her soft curves, wanted to breathe nothing unless it had come from her lungs.

Pamela Clare

#5. She had the bone structure of a bird. Wolf probably could have crushed her with his fingertips.

Marissa Meyer

#6. Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

John Locke

#7. Nlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact ...

Joseph Campbell

#8. Excuse me?' she spat, and as Dougie and Celia always pointed out, it didn't matter that Neve never swore because she could make 'Excuse me?' sound like 'Go fuck yourself.

Sarra Manning

#9. Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do I want my life to be lived?' Then proceed to take a small risk in the direction of that new action.

Wayne Dyer

#10. My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

Bran Ferren

#11. (Humans, take note: You can refer to the Realm as "Faerie" without causing offense, but do not make the mistake of referring to its citizens as "fairies" - unless you want to be punched.) Elfhaeme

Ellen Kushner