True realism consists in revealing the surprising things…

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is…

— Roger Ebert

As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,…

— Richard Branson

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

— H. L. Mencken

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song…

— Garth Brooks

I just had a pedicure. My feet are soft like a baby's behind. If his ass was covered in calluses.

— Bob Saget

It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is…

— Margaret Thatcher

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

— Enoch Powell

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

— Charles W. Waterman

You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach…

— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was…

— Albert Einstein

That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he will be…

— Johnny Depp

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that…

— Buffalo Bill

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and…

— Ron Eglash

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with…

— William McDonough

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.

— Laurie Graham