Manhole Covers Quotes

#1. How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.

Don DeLillo

#2. There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.

Neil Gaiman

#3. This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

Denis Leary

#4. People are made up of flaws.

Amanda Seyfried

#5. PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

George Bernard Shaw

#6. Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

Debbie Macomber

#7. He's got places to go, people to see . . . ,

Julie Garwood

#8. I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

Lu Tong

#9. I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum users. It seems to me like these things would be much better expressed in non-confrontational, polite manner.

Gavin Dunne

#10. On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

Sylvia Earle

#11. If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

Ernestine Rose

#12. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Louis L'Amour

#13. They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

John Updike

#14. Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

Joe Klein