Massed Quotes

#1. Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

Teju Cole

#2. The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.

Terry Eagleton

#3. Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark ... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4. Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

Nathan Goldstein

#5. The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

Cesar Pelli

#6. American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Henry Adams

#7. And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Immature citizens in several sizes were massed before a large factorylike structure where advanced techniques transformed them into true-thinking right-acting members of the three social classes, lower, middle, and upper middle.

Donald Barthelme

#9. I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

Ptolemy

#10. At the end of the war American and Soviet troops massed throughout most of the European peninsula, with Americans also in Britain and the British in Europe. The peninsula was occupied, shattered and exhausted, no longer the arbiter of its own fate.

George Friedman

#11. Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

George Orwell

#12. It is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

Mabel Osgood Wright

#13. How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

Daniel Dennett

#14. Kruger paused. He glared at the crowd massed before him, he squared his shoulders and, shaking his dusty fist towards them, he growled, "This time, when I say war, it will be war to the bitter end.

Martin Marais

#15. No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

Mark Twain

#16. Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?

Virginia Woolf

#17. Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

Andy Grove

#18. Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#19. I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

King George V

#20. I fear more than that the chemical action which would be set up in my soul by a false homage to a symbol behind which are massed twenty centuries of authority and veneration.

James Joyce

#21. May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it." (1 Thess. 5:23-24)

Philip F Reinders

#22. I finally understand. Cancer is not a gypsy curse. It's a huge smashing wave. It catches you and drags you out. And anybody can be spit back up, and anybody can drown. -The Lucky Place

Zu Vincent

#23. Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.

Ernest Hemingway,

#24. However, just like this cup, you seem to be full of your own ideas. And how can any more go in . . . until you first empty your cup?

Robin S. Sharma

#25. Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

Tina Fey

#26. I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away!

Katie Fforde

#27. He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made.

Barbara Kingsolver

#28. Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

#29. I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make sure every minute counts and that I go on great vacations and I share my memories with people that I love and that will make me laugh and lalalalalala.

Chelsea Handler

#30. I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

Andy Kindler

#31. Pity," he said, smiling. "I'd heard about you, but I had no idea just how beautiful ...

Latrivia S. Nelson

#32. Loser loser Double loser whatever as if get the picture DUH!

Lisi Harrison

#33. The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

Ben Bernanke

#34. Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

Mark Epstein