Speculatively Quotes

#1. I am not having a fucking orgy. So stop throwing your buddy at me!" Then I was struck by a thought and I poked my head back out of the bathroom and looked at him speculatively. "Are you bi?

Eve Langlais

#2. Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

Samuel Alexander

#3. You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!

Ken Follett

#4. If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk ... " She eyed Jared speculatively

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Elvis Costello

#6. When Anderson walks into a room, you can hear a rat pissing on cotton.

Chael Sonnen

#7. The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

James Cameron

#8. portrayed, in the most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#9. It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Thucydides

#10. It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.

Veronika Carnaby

#11. The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane - or put your children on a plane - if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.

Rush Limbaugh

#12. I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

Jack Klugman

#13. If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution - a higher institution.

Saul Bellow

#14. Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Paul Greengrass

#15. I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".

Steven Wright