Eye Wateringly Quotes

#1. We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Mike Rutherford

#2. Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

David Foster

#3. My wife said to me, "I want to be cremated." I said, "How about Tuesday?"

Buddy Hackett

#4. A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

Apuleius

#5. I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

Kate Braverman

#6. If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

David Harsanyi

#7. I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Tim Hansel

#8. I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

Al Yankovic

#9. Literature is my Utopia

Helen Keller

#10. Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy ... The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.

Ralph W. Moss

#11. I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.

Oliver Burkeman

#12. If the scrapes were on the front of our knees, she would put our dirty feet in the middle of her chest to clean the wounds, and we could feel her heart beating, strong as the thud of the ground when we walked, through our soles.

Jesmyn Ward

#13. I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

Lara Giddings

#14. Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.

Carlos Cuaron

#15. The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who - in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses" - cannot hear the music of the spheres.

Albert Einstein