(874 quotes found)
“At that point, looking remarkable healthy, the skunk gave me the finger (I swear!) and casually strolled back into the woods.”
William Shatner
“There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.”
Margery Allingham
“Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?”
Yeardley Smith
“Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.”
Dan Brown
“In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.”
Senator John Kerry
“[Lyndon] was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd met something remarkable-but I didn't know quite what.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell
“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.”
Robert Penn Warren
“The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men”
Ambrose Bierce