Quarantined Quotes

#1. The balding headstones
of the others - quarantined

from their own mothers & sisters & daughters -
I wondered if they, like us, were strange

alloys of sadness & forgetting
the words to the songs.

Jennifer Givhan

#2. There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

Garry Trudeau

#3. Indifference is a quarantined difference.

Akiane Kramarik

#4. I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

George Carlin

#5. This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.

Ann Veneman

#6. Then he's got one shelf where all the personal stuff sits, as if quarantined,

Ben H. Winters

#7. The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Carl Sagan

#8. As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.

Richard H. Davis

#9. Her sadness was ceaseless, but she kept it quarantined in a governable little quarter of her heart. It was the best she could do.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Cynthia Ozick

#11. The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Haile Selassie

#12. The laugh came then, a marvelous honking hoorah so infectious that Dill felt it should be quarantined.

Ross Thomas

#13. It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories.

Raymond E. Feist

#15. Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

Jim George

#16. The bad news is that if we do in fact get off the earth we will contaminate the rest of the universe with our moral insufficiency.

E.L. Doctorow

#17. I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

John Perry

#18. A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he couldn't get the temperature of his Boston home above 38 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bill Bryson

#19. God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

Steve Harvey

#20. I can't say it. Now, at last, it becomes impossible for me to mouth the words
I'm fine. I won't say anything.

Margaret Laurence

#21. Painted by a gentle dawn
one is proud that like one's own
planet now one will not wince
at what one is facing, since
putting up with nothing whose
company we cannot lose
hardens rocks and -rather fast-
hearts as well. But rocks will last.

Joseph Brodsky

#22. When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said ... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.

Giorgio Vasari

#23. Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

Lori Lesko

#24. No. I didn't look at the last few scripts. I didn't want to read them because I'm a 'Breaking Bad' fan. I wanted to experience it with everyone.

Steven Michael Quezada

#25. I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions - and should be vigorously opposed.

Steve Allen