Scarcer Quotes

#1. In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

Louis Aragon

#2. One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Yo-Yo Ma

#4. The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture much. We just burn up ever scarcer petroleum in the ever-expanding suburbs built with mortgage money lent to people who haven't a clue.

Joe Bageant

#5. The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#6. Farms and holdfasts grew scarcer and smaller as they pressed northward, ever deeper into the darkness of the wolfswood, until finally there were no more roofs to shelter under, and they were thrown back on their own resources.

George R R Martin

#7. Here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#8. In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.

Peter Riegert

#9. During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

Henrik Svensmark

#10. Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven.

Okakura Kakuzo

#11. Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

William Shakespeare

#12. If Michelangelo had seen this in daylight with the sun streaming down from the glass dome, he'd have fallen on his knees and painted 'till he was blind.

Susan Ee

#13. There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. E-mail is a procrastinator's dream come true.

Gayle Trent

#15. I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.

Alex Rosa

#16. I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Chesley Sullenberger

#17. If not consciously acknowledged and mourned, uncertainty about one's descent can cause great anxiety and unrest, all the more so if, as in Alois's case, it is linked with an ominous rumor that can neither be proven nor completely refuted

Alice Miller

#18. Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

Kevin Drew

#19. This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

Red Barber

#20. When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

William Collins

#21. As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

David Pleat

#23. It's not time or opportunity that is to obtain supremacy; it's determination alone that leads you to move your bone and to have anything done. Laziness leads to none.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#24. Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.

Candace Bushnell

#25. If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

Lena Dunham