Annuals Quotes - Page 8

• Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

  Kate Atkinson

  Girl, Vocabulary, Emotion

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.135, Random House

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• The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vacation, Average

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• A Panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a Panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry, and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black and white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

  Lynne Truss

  Confused, Black And White, Gun

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

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• Nuestros antepasados rurales, con poco bendecidos, Pacientes de trabajo cuando el fin era el descanso, Mimaron el día que albergaba su grano anual, Con fiestas, y off'rings, y una tensión agradecida.

  Alexander Pope

  Thanksgiving, Littles, Paciente

  Alexander Pope, "Imitaciones de Horace: La Primera Epístola Del Segundo Libro"

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• I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Party, Kids, Childhood

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• Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Voice, Doorways

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Years, Choices, Political

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• His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.

  Robert Musil

  Art, Fall, Curves

  Robert Musil (2017). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan

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• El Oeste comienza donde la precipitación media anual desciende por debajo de las veinte pulgadas. Cuando se alcanza la línea que marca ese descenso -por comodidad, el meridiano cien- se ha llegado al Oeste.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Promedio, Veinte, Líneas

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• El crecimiento de la industria alimentaria estadounidense chocará siempre con este molesto hecho biológico: por mucho que lo intentemos, cada uno de nosotros sólo puede comer unos quinientos kilos de alimentos al año. A diferencia de muchos otros productos -por ejemplo, los CD o los zapatos-, existe un límite natural a la cantidad de alimentos que cada uno de nosotros puede consumir sin explotar.Lo que esto significa para la industria alimentaria es que su tasa natural de crecimiento se sitúa en torno al 1% anual, siendo el 1% la tasa de crecimiento anual de la población estadounidense. El problema es que [la industria] no tolerará una tasa de crecimiento tan anémica.

  Michael Pollan

  Media, Años, Cds

  Michael Pollan (2009). "The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World" (El dilema del omnívoro: la búsqueda de la comida perfecta en un mundo de comida rápida), p. 52, Bloomsbury Publishing.

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• Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade.

  David Adam

  Giving Up, Believe, Years

  "Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Events, Glitches

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• Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

  Ron Paul

  Simple, Government, Vote

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.430, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers

  André Aciman

  Letting Go, Dream, Opposites

  André Aciman (2011). “False Papers”, p.61, Macmillan

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• I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Support, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Las plantas anuales son el servicio médico de emergencia de la naturaleza, sembradas en sonidos y cicatrices para mantener la tierra hasta que se restablezca la cubierta perenne.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Emergencies, Sound

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• Incluso los clásicos que leemos a nuestros hijos pequeños están llenos de colmillos de lobo y hornos ardientes y pies ensangrentados y fragmentos de hielo que atraviesan los corazones. Incluso el Nuevo Testamento culmina con un acto de tortura indescriptible. Mejor leemos a nuestros hijos el Informe Anual de Amnistía y ya está.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Niños, Corazón, Kids

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• At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Events, Calendars

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• I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Business, Buying In

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• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  Eddie Van Halen

  Beach, Crazy, Kids

  "Eddie Van Halen reinventa la guitarra". Entrevista con Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. 4 de febrero de 2009.

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• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  Naveen Jain

  Awards, Ideas, Giving

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• I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

  Anna Kendrick

  Fans, Marathon, Lord

  "Anna Kendrick,‘ParaNorman’ Star, On Her Yearly ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Marathon And Why ‘Twilight’ Was Her ‘Day Job’" by Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• No crié a mi hijo Sam para celebrar el Día de la Madre. No quería que sintiera la obligación de comprarme almuerzos caros o flores, una muestra anual de gratitud que hay que apretar los dientes y soportar.

  Anne Lamott

  Madre, Gratitud, Flor

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• I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

  Rachael Ray

  Libro, Inicio, Escritura

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• When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.

  Allen St. Pierre

  Creative, Dollars, Cost

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