Top 100 Quotes About Populated
#1. Looking closer at human beings, it becomes clear that each of us is a world of our own. Our forehead is a breezy meadow, our elbows are arid wastelands, our eyes are salty lakes, and our gut is the most amazing giant forest ever, populated by the weirdest of creatures.
Giulia Enders
#2. For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.
J. William Schopf
#3. Life is populated with scarecrows - all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?
Jerry Spinelli
#4. Why care about a flat planet populated by flat people? Who cares about a place where there is no Ky?
Ally Condie
#5. Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to "get somewhere," but having no idea of where they're going.
Neale Donald Walsch
#6. Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.
Peter Landesman
#7. Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
Umberto Eco
#8. Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#9. North Carolina is temperate and populated with well-meaning people; therefore I will engage in oral sex with another man.
David Sedaris
#10. New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.
Robert Pinsky
#11. She described to us six lanes' worth of unadulterated fear, populated exclusively by motorists whose driving education had been paid for by the blood of pedestrians.
Jeff Deck
#12. This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.
Frederick Lenz
#13. If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
Mick Cornett
#14. The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations
Kevin Carson
#15. the public net, populated with random staffer opinions and a whole bunch of irrelevance.
K.F. Breene
#16. God has created nights well-populated
with dreams, crowded with mirror images,
so that man may feel that he is nothing more
than vain reflection. That's what frightens us.
Jorge Luis Borges
#17. The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
Yann Martel
#18. He did not like Europe, which he regarded as a lesser continent, populated with people significantly greedier and more materialistic than Americans. It was a place, he noted, where
David Halberstam
#19. Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#20. I understand that you're a big fish in a small pond, but I'll explain that if you want to swim in the ocean, you must understand that the ocean is populated by sharks, and sharks never sleep.
Kristen Ashley
#21. How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke
#22. He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.
Lisa Lang
#23. We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
Geena Davis
#24. A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.
Marc Laidlaw
#25. Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.
Danielle Steel
#26. I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
Christa McAuliffe
#27. Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.
Matthew Sweet
#28. From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
Nancy Astor
#29. I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
Henry Rollins
#30. The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bruce Jackson
#31. I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things ...
Joel-Peter Witkin
#32. It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.
Chris Hadfield
#33. 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
Ben Mendelsohn
#34. The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them.
Tami Hoag
#35. At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.
Hayao Miyazaki
#36. He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang
#37. If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!
Justine Larbalestier
#38. We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity
governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.
Miguel Syjuco
#39. my marriage proved to be somewhat more populated than I had anticipated
Jojo Moyes
#40. It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.
John Leguizamo
#41. We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.
Thomm Quackenbush
#42. I've dreamed again of being in hell, vast cliffs with eyes, iron streets populated with gargoyles, half-dressed harpies, and in the streets chariots going of themselves, spitting the stench of pitch and sulphur
Michael Gruber
#43. We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history
Manuel De Landa
#45. Like charges, charges of the same sign, strongly repel one another. We can think of it as a dedicated mutual aversion to their own kind, a little as if the world were densely populated by anchorites and misanthropes.
Carl Sagan
#46. It wasn't until I was seventeen and moved away to college that I discovered how the world is mostly populated by strangers. When
Hope Jahren
#47. This almost never happens, outside of the realm of scientific terminology (which is obviously a domain populated by sadists with no regard for language).
Ammon Shea
#48. Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
Eli Broad
#49. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.
Mark Zuckerberg
#50. If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
Bonnie Bedelia
#51. Peak oil: The over-populated UK's ability to feed and supply itself for our privileged lifestyle requires the land and resources of other nations. Against a background of depleting oil resources, this is a dangerous strategy
Phil Harding
#52. So we literally made the earth move? A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don't engage in sex in populated areas.
Nalini Singh
#53. My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize
Hank Johnson
#54. Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.
Richard H. Davis
#55. It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.
Ron Fournier
#56. The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.
David J. C. MacKay
#57. Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.
Johan Huizinga
#58. I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.
Stephen King
#59. We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams.
Kevin Powers
#60. If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because every one of them will die one day.
Dean Koontz
#61. If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.
Bubba Sparxxx
#62. This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by mistakes and a futile desire to turn back time for an impossible do-over.
Vicki Pettersson
#63. I went to Rikers one time to do 'Third Watch,' and I remember thinking, 'Wow, this is a scary place.' We were using a section of the prison where half of it was still populated by inmates.
Selenis Leyva
#64. Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
Steven Levitt
#65. Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
Nancy Kress
#66. Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.
John Burnham Schwartz
#67. I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.
Deanna Raybourn
#68. I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
Doug Liman
#69. One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.
Herbert Marcuse
#70. Life owes you, but sometimes you have to be your own fucking debt collector. And if we have to burn in hell for it, heaven's going to be sparsely populated.
Jo Nesbo
#71. Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.
Alethea Kontis
#72. Listen, don't get my Jersey pride going. We are the most densely-populated state in America 'cause some many people who know the secret want to live there.
Cory Booker
#73. No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.
Jane Jacobs
#74. The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
Kenneth Grahame
#75. Many of the men we wanted were used to living in cities or near large metropolitan areas and were a bit dubious about the prospects of life in a remote, sparsely populated area. We had somewhat similar trouble with the engineering people, although they were not so concerned at being isolated.
Leslie R. Groves
#76. I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.
Bohumil Hrabal
#77. The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.
Margaret Drabble
#78. Surely it is no accident that the most thorough of tyrannies appeared in Europe's most thoroughly scientific and industrialized nation. If we allow our own country to become as densely populated, overdeveloped and technically unified as modern Germany we may face a similar fate.
Edward Abbey
#79. In some of the most heavily populated slave states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia - between thirty-five and fifty percent of the white families held slaves in 1860.
James Oakes
#80. He believes the world populated by obvious monsters. The most dangerous of us are the least obvious. He relies on his skill as a lie detector, reading and judging the conflicting emotions of others.
Karen Marie Moning
#81. They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be ... too late.
Alan Moore
#82. Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.
Peter Leithart
#83. A graveyard could be so densely populated and yet it was the loneliest place on earth.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#84. I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.
Pete Townshend
#85. I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.
Catherine Lacey
#86. The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.
Tom Wujec
#87. I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.
Peter Jackson
#88. I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
Jane Smiley
#89. Death is part of life. If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because
Dean Koontz
#90. With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
Barry Ritholtz
#91. As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world's powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact, Mars is probably of greater strategic concern. But Rwanda, unlike Mars, is populated by human beings, and when Rwanda had a genocide, the world's powers left Rwanda to it.
Philip Gourevitch
#92. The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.
Robert Jastrow
#93. Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.
Clive James
#94. There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.
Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli
#95. We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
Alan Moore
#96. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
Lindy West
#97. Guys are dumb. They're stupid and the only reason they exist is because their semen keeps the planet populated.
Amy Kinzer
#98. It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
Gregory A. Boyd
#99. populated the hills above it, taking small consolation in the fact that every day
Toni Morrison
#100. As workers in Alaska built 800 miles of pipeline through wilderness all but uninhabited by humans, workers in Washington took up the challenge of pushing 100 miles of rapid transit through a long-settled region densely populated by lawyers.
Zachary M. Schrag
