History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the…

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