Drastically Reduced Quotes

#1. Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order for the manufacturers to keep that stuff cheap, it would have to be made by fifteen-year-olds in China.

Michael Moore

#2. Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.

Susan Blackmore

#3. Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced - an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6 million in 1851. At least 1 million of those people had died. The rest fled the country, hoping for a new life in another land.

Ryan Hackney

#4. There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles E. Wilson

#5. Syn spread his legs wider than a cheap hooker in a Red Roof Inn. "I need it now, Furi.

A.E. Via

#6. In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.

Deb Caletti

#7. A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

William Blake

#8. I think love is different for each person, but I think the one thing it has in common is putting the other person's feelings before yours. If you're so worried about Libby loving you, isn't that the same thing?

Magan Vernon

#9. The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can't wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Chris Gardner

#10. The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

Jon Landau

#11. Herr Konsul, sorry to take your time. A man's voice. The blood in Reiss' veins instantly stopped its motion.

Philip K. Dick

#12. I remember another aphorism of my father's, one that he used to say whenever we passed someone pissing openly in the street: add color to life when you can.

Dinaw Mengestu

#13. Work hard, play hard, love hard.

Elizabeth Jones

#14. [It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the 'holiness of beauty' whereas the Jews worshiped 'the beauty of holiness.

Everett Ferguson

#15. In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

Richard Branson

#16. The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde