Quotes About Meerschaum

#1. The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

Vincent Starrett

#2. There's a lot of Sherlock love in here. In many ways, this book might as well be called 'Deduce THIS, Sexlock Holmes!' with a picture of me licking his meerschaum, cross-eyed and screaming.

Caitlin Moran

#3. Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."
"True," said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggerel myself.

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. Once the Constitution became a legal rather than a political document, judicial review, although not judicial supremacy, became inevitable.

Gordon S. Wood

#5. I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

George Burns

#6. To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

Fanny Burney

#7. The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

Meg White

#8. The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

Henry Rollins

#9. I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Albert Einstein

#10. People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic.
(on Thierry Henry)

Alan Shearer

#11. Someone has opened the flood gates of stupidity...

Anthony Feinman

#12. Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so many lovers.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez