Family Fallout Quotes

#1. I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.

Terry Tempest Williams

#2. Regressives say small businesses would be hurt by a higher marginal tax. Don't believe this, either. Only just over 1 percent of small-business owners earn enough to be taxed at the top rate - and that's just on the portion of their incomes exceeding $379,000. The

Robert B. Reich

#3. Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

Adrienne Rich

#4. This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed

#5. There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

Al Yankovic

#6. Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Mason Cooley

#7. We all know that the world is empty and that the important thing, the only thing, is to try to maintain order in that emptiness.

Yukio Mishima

#8. The slumber party took place in what the Methodists called a family room, the Catholics used as an extra bedroom, and the neighborhood's only Jews had turned into a combination darkroom and fallout shelter.

David Sedaris