Top 30 Measly Quotes
#1. Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
Mark Ruffalo
#2. Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.
Charlie Brooker
#3. Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
Rick Bass
#4. I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.
Morgan Matson
#5. I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.
Rand Paul
#6. What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
Sara Parkin
#7. Your measly threats need to end,' Aphador grunted. 'I do get tired of such meaningless babble.
Keisha Keenleyside
#8. What god would make so much rock below and air above and just a measly silo between?
Hugh Howey
#9. Snooty knew measly talked muchly.
Toba Beta
#10. A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.
Karen Marie Moning
#11. One acre of land can produce either 20,000 pounds of potatoes or a measly 165 pounds of meat.
Lindsay S. Nixon
#12. It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.
Michael Chabon
#13. On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
Frederick Forsyth
#14. With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.
Jackie Speier
#15. Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person's entire day with just a few measly sentences?
J. Sterling
#17. Gregori jolted back. "Snap! You couldn't control one measly mortal?"
Roman clenched his fists. "No."
Gregori slapped a hand against his brow. "Snap!"
"Why the hell are you snapping? Are you a turtle?" It was times like this that firing Gregori
seemed to be the wise choice.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#18. All that majesty, all that infinite variety of energy, and all we see is a narrow little slice of it: seven measly colors.
Michael Reaves, Mallory Reaves
#19. Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.
Timothy Noah
#20. He didn't know what his measly five birds would be able to do, but they'd be ready to do it if he had to personally launch them into space with a rubber band tied across the flight deck.
Evan Currie
#21. It was so strange. She'd known the man for years, and during that time the only feelings he'd evoked in her were curiosity and indifference. But three measly days at his side, and somehow she'd fallen in love with him.
Elle Kennedy
#22. You'll have to do better than that measly steel blade to make a dent in me.
Amy Plum
#23. No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
Rex Stout
#24. The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
Orville Wright
#25. I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
Patrick Warburton
#26. Apocalyptic literature was created to speak in a powerful way and with a dramatic seriousness that would match the sense of hopelessness and terror that can easily grip a generation in the midst of a profound crisis.
William J. Abraham
#27. Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.
Corinne Maier
#28. The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.
Peter Sarsgaard
#29. I am just wondering how this world would be if everyone done their job competently and efficiently. I am so tired of imbeciles. I do believe their function on this earth is to torment those who have common sense.
Patricia H. Graham
#30. The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
Michael Heizer
