Ethel Waters Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
-
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
-
We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.
-
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.
-
I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.
-
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.
-
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
-
When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.
-
I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket
-
Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
-
It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.
-
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.
-
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
-
I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
-
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
-
I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
-
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
-
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
-
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
-
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
-
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
-
My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.
-
Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
-
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
