Whisker Quotes

#1. The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West.

David Roberts

#2. In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

Lincoln Chafee

#3. Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

Jean Burden

#4. And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

Murray Walker

#5. Apologies are totally inadequate,' shouted Uncle Wattleberry. 'Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage. You are a danger to the whisker-growing public. You have knocked my hat off, pulled my whiskers, and tried to remove my nose.

Norman Lindsay

#6. The giant scratched his beard, and a single white whisker twirled down like an Apache helicopter and crashed nearby, sending up a mushroom cloud of snow.

Rick Riordan

#7. With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

Theodore White

#8. You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

#9. Three Meatloaf Haikus
Oh yucky meatloaf
sitting under the hot lights
so gray and gristly.
Nothing tastes worse than
you, not cauliflower or
even lima beans.
And what is that weird
thing sticking out
a whisker?
hair? a rubber band?

Jennifer L. Holm

#10. It's strange how the people you care about least, sometimes know you the best. You let your guard down with them because you don't mind that they see you, warts and all.

Paige Toon

#11. Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

James Fallows

#12. What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?

Dennis Miller

#13. Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

Marjane Satrapi

#14. Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.

Ian McDonald

#15. I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

Courteney Cox