Widder Quotes

#1. She makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed ... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it

Mark Twain

#2. Not a giggle, Hodges thought, but a titter. Given that her husband was dead, he supposed you could even call it a widder-titter.

Stephen King

#3. The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Richard Carlson

#4. Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.

Edith Widder

#5. I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

Edith Widder

#6. It was the day after Thanksgiving. I was the 3 p.m. backwaiter, but the trains were running irregularly, and while I had heard one sighing into the station as I ran down the stairs, my card was out of money. Which is to say, I was late.

Stephanie Danler

#7. We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.

Edith Widder

#8. As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

Rachel Bloom

#9. I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

Edith Widder

#10. The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

Edith Widder

#11. I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

Edith Widder

#12. Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Jane Jacobs

#13. I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

Janeane Garofalo

#14. It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.

Edith Widder

#15. In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.

Edith Widder

#16. You think I'm pretty?" I ask.
"We need to stop talking," he says a little gruffly. "We're scaring the fish off."
"Okay, okay." I bite my lip, then smile.

Cynthia Hand

#17. As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

Tony Romo

#18. Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Edith Widder

#19. The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.

Michael Crichton

#20. Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.

Edith Widder

#21. I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

Edith Widder

#22. Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

Terry Pratchett

#23. I'm playing with fire, with something I don't understand.

L.J.Smith

#24. I felt that with each movie, Gary [Ross] adopts a different style. He doesn't have one look that's the Gary Ross look, and I thought that was important.

Nina Jacobson

#25. The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

Edith Widder