Gopher Quotes

#1. The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.

David Letterman

#2. We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Edward Abbey

#3. Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

Padgett Powell

#4. I am a nurse," she retorted. "I am not a gopher." "You are a nurse," the supervisor yelled, "and you are whatever you have to be to try to save lives!

Kerry Hamm

#5. As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

Eddie Redmayne

#6. I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

John Terry

#7. It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.

Will Rogers

#8. If I said I wouldn't toss him out of my bed for eating crackers, would you leave me alone? (Grace)
Maybe. What else wouldn't you toss him out of bed for? (Selena)
Eating greasy grimy gopher guts? (Grace)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.

Ross Macdonald

#10. Choking the gopher. What'd you think I'd do, my homework?

Simone Elkeles

#11. I wouldn't care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it's merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie?

Sinclair Lewis

#12. There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of easy soil beneath his paws, and then getting exactly what you want, sunshine or some prized tuber.

Gary Shteyngart

#13. A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Jane Smiley

#14. An honest buck may not buy any more groceries than a dishonest one, but it'll always be worth more. Especially to me,

Josephine Angelini

#15. Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#16. Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#17. but the more ink he added, the more vulnerable I felt. There was a chance I might shatter if I revealed too much.

Helena Hunting

#18. Johnny nods and grins, but doesn't talk. He's overwhelmed by Muninn's gewgaws. I've

Richard Kadrey

#19. Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

J.L. Austin

#20. I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;

Harriet Jacobs