Whopping Quotes

#1. Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.

Nick Cave

#2. You want to know what happened, right? No, you don't. Just no. Big whopping no. A plate full of no with a side of no. I

Jake Bible

#3. Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.

Kathy Freston

#4. In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

Nathan Myhrvold

#5. About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.

Steve Rubel

#7. I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love.

Maureen Johnson

#8. Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?

Margaret Mahy

#9. You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

Jonathan Franzen

#10. Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30 grams per medium-sized avocado.

Marcus Samuelsson

#11. In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

Peter Diamandis

#12. 78 percent never have a single relapse. Less than 15 percent have one relapse but not a second. And those with more than one relapse? A whopping 7 percent.

Debra Jay

#13. I love the French language ... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

Oscar Wilde

#14. A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

Barbara Corcoran

#15. Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present."
"Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.

Jennifer Estep

#16. One 2 x 4 beam can support 607 pounds, but two 2 x 4s nailed together can support not just 1,214 pounds (which is what you'd expect), but a whopping 4,878 pounds! So it is with us. We can do so much more together than we can alone.

Sean Covey

#17. There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.

Martin Jacques

#18. Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

Susan Orlean

#19. When Time magazine conducted a poll in Europe in March [2003] asking which of three - North Korea, Iraq, or the United States - was the biggest threat to world peace, a whopping 86.9% answered the United States.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#20. A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)

Victoria Moran

#21. I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

Kevin Hart

#22. Pennsylvania one year paid out $90,000 in bounties for the killing of 130,000 owls and hawks to save the state's farmers a slightly less than whopping $1,875 in estimated livestock losses. (It is not very often, after all, that an owl carries off a cow.)

Bill Bryson

#23. Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.

Austin Carlile

#24. Damn it, woman," he snapped. "Stop crying. Are you hysterical?"
"Maybe." Her voice was muffled by the pillow and her hands.

-Maxim & Airiana

Christine Feehan

#25. When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

Edward James Olmos

#26. I've seen what a whip can do,' Jason said suddenly. 'Don't hurt them.' I stared at him. 'You don't strike me as the self-sacrificing kind.' He shrugged. 'We all have our moments.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#27. I've worked with Sourav and I enjoy his company. I found him to be likeable and a very nice fellow. It will be good to renew the acquaintance.

Greg Chappell

#28. Vices of the time; vices of the man.

Francis Bacon

#29. A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it's tough. But that's what I'm going to do.

J. Willard Marriott

#30. I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

Graham Roberts

#31. Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

Colonel Sanders

#32. One day the "Good Morning Everyone" team announces that the government of the Dominican Republic has offered to bring all thirty-three miners and their families to a relaxing resort in that Caribbean island nation.

Hector Tobar

#33. A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Yogi Berra