Harping Quotes

#1. I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality ... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.

Scarlett Johansson

#2. Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.

Nina Killham

#3. Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Aesop

#4. I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

L.M. Montgomery

#5. I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Charles Dickens

#6. Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.

Adele Parks

#7. If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

Jim Abbott

#8. Keep harping on about how Europe's close to accepting you," the American ambassador to Moldova suggested coldly to the president, when the latter came to ask for a loan. "They'll grab onto that like a rabbit after a carrot. But I'm sorry. I cannot give you any money.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

#9. I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

Mark Twain

#10. Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism

Charmaine Smith Ladd

#11. Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. But even the craziest idea can work its way into your mind if you're lonely and grief-stricken and someone keeps harping on it. It can wriggle in there like a bloodworm, and lay its eggs, and pretty soon your whole brain is squirming with maggots. I

Stephen King

#14. It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.

John Roberts

#16. If we just keep sleeping together we'll just be one race and it won't be a problem.

Mike Binder

#17. Why, Tea Cake? Whut good do combin' mah hair do you? It's mah comfortable, not yourn." "It's mine too. Ah ain't been sleepin' so good for more'n uh week cause Ah been wishin' so bad tuh git mah hands in yo' hair. It's so pretty. It feels jus' lak underneath uh dove's wing next to mah face.

Zora Neale Hurston

#18. Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

Mackenzie Davis

#19. I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

Marcia Cross

#20. Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

John Green

#21. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it ... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople. - J.R. Isidore

Philip K. Dick

#22. The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

Deepak Chopra