Top 100 Everett Quotes
#1. I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.
Patty Murray
#2. As the distance of migration increases," wrote the migration scholar Everett Lee, "the migrants become an increasingly superior group.
Isabel Wilkerson
#3. While I am alive, I intend to live. (Everett Ruess to his friend Bill, Mar 9, 1931, p 31)
W.L. Rusho
#4. You all know what Class Seven does?" "You blow shit up," Travers supplied in a long-suffering voice that drew snickers from the rest of the group. "All kinds of shit," Everett growled with relish, the gleam returning to his eyes in full force.
Abigail Roux
#5. Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.
Hugh Everett III
#7. The adult was Eric "Rusty" Everett, thirty-seven, a physician's assistant working with Dr. Ron Haskell, whom Rusty often thought of as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Because, Rusty would have explained, he so often remains behind the curtain while I do the work.
Stephen King
#8. Setting the flowers, roots and all, aside, Millie crossed her arms over her chest. Don't insult my intelligence, Everett. You wouldn't be bringing me flowers or children if something of a disastrous nature hadn't occurred.
Jen Turano
#9. I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
Alan Cumming
#10. [On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.
Mary McGrory
#11. Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her forever.
Danielle Steel
#13. Me: fine. u ever want 2 sleep w/someone u really dont like? Everett: you mean like a republican?
Avon Gale
#14. I don't want to die without telling you that I love you," Everett's voice was a faint, wavering whisper, and his lips swollen and bloodied. "I always have.
Belle Whittington
#15. All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.
Maile Meloy
#16. Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
Murray Gell-Mann
#17. am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett Hale
Katy Regnery
#18. [George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.
Clarence Darrow
#19. The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.
George W. S. Trow
#20. With that, Millie closed her eyes, kept them closed a good long moment, whispered an "Amen," then opened her eyes.
"Were you just ... praying?" Everett asked.
"I always pray before I proceed with a life-threatening situations."
"Does it help?"
"I'm still alive, aren't I?
Jen Turano
#21. I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
Everett Ruess
Jon Krakauer
#22. You just think we live in a free country, Everett. We are at the mercy of greed and the selfish pursuit of wealth.
D.J. Israel
#23. Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound.
Jonathan Raban
#24. Brandt Everett was certifiably crazy so far as Shawn was concerned, and to keep him under control they had to find something the man liked more than blowing shit up.
Abigail Roux
#25. Ironically, this first-day problem for Ulam in 1943 would later become a critical part
of Ulam's work with Cornelius Everett in 1950 in which he demonstrated that Teller's design for the Super bomb was impractical.
Stanislaw M. Ulam
#26. Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.
Lance Morrow
#27. Did you know the local tv channels broadcasts your 900 in an endless loop? It's a bunch of video want ads for snowmobiles, then some kind of school crap with Everett Walsh that nobody wants to see over and over,and then you.
Jennifer Echols
#28. Everett realized what he was going to have to do.
He was, much against his better judgment, going to have to seek out Miss Longfellow and beg her
on bended knee and with flowers, no doubt
to come work for him.
Jen Turano
#29. But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.
Jon Krakauer
#30. At 2 P.M., two long, cold hours after starting, Everett concluded his speech to thunderous applause - motivated, one is bound to suspect, more by the joy of realizing it was over than by any message derived from the content - and
Bill Bryson
#31. I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
Ben Affleck
#32. I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.
Dorothy Malone
#33. Everett was strange,' Sleight concedes. 'Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.' (pg. 96)
Jon Krakauer
#34. I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.
Kathleen Hanna
#35. Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!
Everett Dirksen
#36. I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Carl Everett
#37. I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.
J. Everett Prewitt
#38. To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Rupert Everett
#39. Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
Daniel Everett
#40. What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.
Edward Everett
#41. Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
Edward Everett
#42. In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
Edward Everett
#43. One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'
Tom Everett Scott
#44. I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.
Percival Everett
#45. From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.
Rupert Everett
#46. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
#47. When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
Edward Everett
#48. As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.
Hugh Everett III
#49. There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
C. Everett Koop
#50. I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
Everett Dirksen
#51. The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Carl Everett
#52. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
Rupert Everett
#53. I am very curious about life. I only hope it stays curious about me.
Mark Everett Stone
#54. When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
C. Everett Koop
#55. [The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.
Hugh Everett III
#56. Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
Everett Dirksen
#57. If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
Rupert Everett
#58. Happiness takes effort. You have to make yourself available to happiness. That is probably the best definition of faith that I can come up with.
Everett Peacock
#59. Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be.
Kevin Michel
#61. Education safeguards liberty better than a standing army.
Edward Everett
#62. Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
Rupert Everett
#63. This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.
Ossian Everett Mills
#64. Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.
Tom Everett Scott
#66. When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.
Kenny Everett
#67. The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.
Rupert Everett
#68. There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.
Rupert Everett
#69. Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
Rupert Everett
#70. The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
C. Everett Koop
#71. I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.
Rupert Everett
#72. I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
Everett Ruess
#73. I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.
Rupert Everett
#74. I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at once, so for the deepest understanding one must seek those with whom one can be most truly one's self and never be blind to the ineffable drollery of it all.
Everett Ruess
#76. I'm liminal. What are you saying? What, you thought you were normal?
Ayize Jama-Everett
#77. I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
C. Everett Koop
#78. I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.
Everett Ruess
#82. Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to ... But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.
Mark Oliver Everett
#83. Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
Everett Dirksen
#84. The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.
Rupert Everett
#85. There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen
#86. You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."
Edward Everett Hale
#89. There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
C. Everett Koop
#90. I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as to be almost negligible.
Everett Ruess
#91. Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; ... drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.
Edward Everett
#92. I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.
Rupert Everett
#93. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to love doing the evil laugh: 'Mwahaha!' I could really do it! And there's a little bit of that inside everybody. Still, as a kid, it was like my favorite thing.
Tom Everett Scott
#94. There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
#95. Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
Everett Reimer
#96. I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.
Rupert Everett
#97. Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.
C. Everett Koop
#99. If your product solves real problems, has a simple, intuitive interaction and an appealing, easy-to-read visual design, yet people aren't using it, chances are your product is failing to communicate at a human level.
Everett N. McKay
#100. But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
Everett Ruess
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