Millionth Place Quotes

#1. Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

Louis C.K.

#2. Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.

Alex Pareene

#3. Do you know how it is when one wakes
at night suddenly and asks,
listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want,
insatiable?

Czeslaw Milosz

#4. If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me.

Pattiann Rogers

#5. The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power.

Garry Wills

#6. If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Nouman Ali Khan

#7. I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

Joe Wright

#8. Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.

Ahmed Zewail

#9. There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting
not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#10. Eve means "giver of life." I don't think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life.

Gloria Furman

#11. Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.

Brenda Blethyn

#12. It's a poor heart that never rejoices. Jane, go down to the cellar, and fetch a bottle of Upset ginger-beer.

Charles Dickens

#13. Anyone who takes drugs should be hammered.

Andy Gray

#14. Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

Nora Roberts

#15. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me.

Alexandra Bracken