Trimmer Quotes

#1. A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

William Hazlitt

#2. services as a tree trimmer.92 In the fall of 1975, while still promoting Cuckoo's Nest, Nicholson played a very small part in his pal Sam Spiegel's production of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, based on the life of MGM wonder boy Irving Thalberg, who made Metro the dominant

Edward Douglas

#3. For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking younger, trimmer, and standing straighter.

Betsy Lerner

#4. Ah, Hollywood. One day, you and I will play Operation. And I'll be the drunk, mad doctor with the hedge trimmer & you will wear the straps

Warren Ellis

#5. Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

Salman Rushdie

#6. I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?

Rachel Caine

#7. When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

Charles M. Schwab

#8. Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.

John W. Trimmer

#9. The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

Zig Ziglar

#10. You can study the rules until your eyes fall out of your head, but if you cannot recall which rule fits your particular situation just before some large ship hits you broadside, then a study of the rules has failed you at the worst possible time.

John W. Trimmer

#11. For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;
nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

Herman Melville

#12. My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane.

Anthony Bourdain

#13. Love you, Ty. Every inch of you, baby, everything that is you.

Kristen Ashley

#14. You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

Alain Prost

#15. Read on and I will tell you what to do in the future to avoid getting smashed and find yourself with nothing but little pieces of drift floating around in the ship's wake.

John W. Trimmer

#16. But with every step, I felt my anger falling way. Underneath that anger: fear. In the middle of one of her self-help phases, Ivy had once proclaimed that all anger was fear. I'd long since wondered what, if anything, was underneath all fear.

Maria Semple

#17. O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

Sarah Trimmer