Fusty Quotes

#1. Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.

James Kelman

#2. Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She

Mary Jo Putney

#3. I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.

Ruth Rendell

#4. It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.

Susan Choi

#5. A fusty nut with no kernel.

William Shakespeare

#6. It's the past. Thoughts and dreams, hopes and hurts, all brewed together, fermenting slowly in the fusty air, unable ever to dissipate completely.

Kate Morton

#7. To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits, free markets, globalization, and a whole series of other things, including welfare reform.

Alan Greenspan

#9. It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.

Chris Parnell

#10. Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

Colin S. Smith

#11. Service is how product is delivered - the technical aspect.

Danny Meyer

#12. They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.

John Grisham

#13. All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me?

Abraham Verghese

#14. Mansell can see him in his earphone.

Murray Walker

#15. My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Juliana Hatfield

#16. Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#17. Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Martin Luther

#18. Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

Ahmed H. Zewail

#19. You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

Frederick Lenz