Unpoisonous Quotes

#1. Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

Carl Sagan

#2. Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

Graham Nash

#4. I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer to spend my time alone with a book and a decanter of brandy.

Andy Lane

#5. The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

George Meany

#6. It was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:
Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul ...
Let good come unto the world.

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#7. If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

Marat Safin

#8. I want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

Grant Hill

#9. After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

Gene Siskel