Top 19 Yucca Quotes
#1. If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.
Wil S. Hylton
#2. If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.
Denise Chavez
#3. In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
Timothy Noah
#4. Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
Daniel Levitin
#5. I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey look-a-like than a Harrison Ford look-a-like. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in the movies.
Harrison Ford
#6. No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.
Auliq Ice
#7. Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to hang out with people. The loss of control in any situation can lead to this state.
David McRaney
#9. Roark stood before them as each man stands in the innocence of his own mind. But Roark stood like that before a hostile crowd - and they knew suddenly that no hatred was possible to him.
Ayn Rand
#10. Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#11. So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.
Kitty Ferguson
#12. There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride
Mary Wollstonecraft
#13. Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.
Hal Elrod
#14. I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality. I do.
Kaley Cuoco
#15. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.
Emma Woolf
#16. The expansion of Europe had begun. Before it ended, in our own time, the greater part of the world, including the scattered islands of the Pacific, was to be seized by an insatiable civilization, greedy for spices or for realms of gold; for land, mere novelty, or for souls.
Keith Sinclair
#17. I own now, I think about 38 pairs of cowboy boots, or 37, something like that now.
Skylar Laine
#18. Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him.
George Eliot
#19. He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before, in his life.
Mark Twain
