Optimum Population Quotes

#1. The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Aldous Huxley

#2. The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Garrett Hardin

#3. I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that ... rock music became a huge economic force.

Mike Love

#4. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.

Andrew Solomon

#5. Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Jean Cocteau

#6. I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

George Saunders

#7. The word "actually," like its cousin "frankly," should, by itself, be a tip-off to most people that what is to follow is a blatant lie - but it isn't.

Alan Bradley

#8. They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

William Shakespeare

#9. There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Epictetus

#10. Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#11. Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Victor Hugo

#12. Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

Garrett Hardin

#13. You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?"
Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes."
"Not Coffee it is, then."
"Yes, Not Coffee.

David Levithan

#14. You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.

Shawn Wayans

#15. The optimum human population of earth is zero.

David Foreman

#16. Yes, she doesn't really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go."
"My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that Jem laughed out loud.

Cassandra Clare

#17. If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

Steve Lacy

#18. The stitch ripper is your friend. Be one with the stitch ripper...

Jeanette Watts