Lowest Bidder Quotes

#1. As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

John Glenn

#2. It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Alan Shepard

#3. I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

Martin Rees

#4. When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin, things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.

Garth Ennis

#5. Holy bananas, said Skye.

Jeanne Birdsall

#6. Innovation invasion is a brand's wheel that turns fortunes

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#7. true courage is not knowing when to take a life, but when to spare one"
~Gandalf

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. She looked up at him in question and he bent his head low, speaking for her ears only. I'm not your fucking partner.

D.B. Reynolds

#9. Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, Here! Have them all!

Sophie Kinsella

#10. I was hoping I could dip your cock in hummus and lick it off. You know, hummus to make you cummus.

Kelly Collins

#11. No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

Michael Gove

#12. I had a conversation with somebody. It was an epiphany." His voice was rueful. He rocked her. "From that point on I swore I would never eat something that could talk.

Thea Harrison

#13. We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.

Rebecca Makkai

#14. No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#15. Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

George Wither

#16. Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Stella Benson

#17. It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend.

Tom Perrotta

#18. The patient decides when it's best to go.

Jack Kevorkian