(1062 quotes found)
“Human kindness, warmth, interaction, friendship, and family are far more important than anything that can come across my cathode-ray tube.”
Clifford Stoll
“As was demonstrated during the 9/11 tragedies and during other emergencies across Maryland and the Nation on an almost daily basis, the heroism and diligence of America's firefighters and first responders is crucial to the health and safety of our communities.”
Paul Sarbanes
“Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil.”
William Manchester
“I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.”
Courteney Cox
“From such defensive, separated worlds some youngsters have indefensibly stepped across a moral line and taken up their lethal rucksacks, ... The deeper alienations that lead to terrorism may have their roots in these young men's objections to events in Iraq or elsewhere, but the closed communities of some traditional Western Muslims are places in which young men's alienations can easily deepen.”
Salman Rushdie
“Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.”
Will Cuppy
“It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.”
Harry Nilsson
“Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.”
Dennis Miller
“More isolated, insulated, lonely, alienated, estranged black folk especially among the working class and working poor, but it's true across the board and that's what is frightening.”
Cornel West
“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”
Thomas Pynchon
