Gail Collins Quotes

If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

Gail Collins

Quotes to Explore

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Money
- Better
- Rich
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

R. Kelly
- People
- Reading
- Text
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

Kary Mullis
- Day
- Week
- Grandfather
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan
- Imagination
- Never
- Carry
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

Ted Nugent
- Energy
- Player
- Year
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

Pamela Sargent
- World
- Business
- Own