Metastasized Quotes

#1. There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

James Wolcott

#2. Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.

F. Mulder

#3. While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Michelle Malkin

#4. The fact that my house was Not Right metastasized into the notion that I myself was somehow Not Right, or that my survival in the world depended on my constant vigilance against various forms of Not-Rightness.

Mary Karr

#5. The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

Abraham Verghese

#6. The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

Leon Panetta

#7. Yet he never gave up. Bitterness never staked its claim. Anger never metastasized into hatred. His heart never hardened; his resolve never vanished. He not only survived; he thrived.

Max Lucado

#8. To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.

David Blunkett

#9. These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

Samuel Johnson

#10. When you love something it's not a job anymore.

Spike Lee

#11. I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#12. The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Louis De Bernieres

#13. I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It's like when you're in line at a store, and a grandma starts telling you all about her grandchildren or her arthritis, and you smile and nod along. But then it's your turn to check out, so you're just like okay, well, good-bye forever.

Becky Albertalli

#14. Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

Geraldine Ferraro

#15. Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

Debra Wilson

#16. A teacher should have a creative mind.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#17. Before you judge a person you have to walk in their moccasins and live in their lodge for a month.

Buddy Hannah

#18. A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

Deeba Salim Irfan

#19. The customer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#20. Dismembering monsters with a chain saw is one thing. People are another." "Yeah. People are easier." "Bob," I growled. "They're people.

Jim Butcher