Canned Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on… — Victor Borge
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think… — Michael Stipe
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes. — Michael Lewis
All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can… — Todd English
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Mihai Nadin
The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. — John Avlon
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. — Ralph Bakshi
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it… — Jennifer Haigh
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk. — Joy Davidman
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead… — Russell Baker
We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's… — John Glenn
No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any… — Thomas S. Monson
If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars. — Nouriel Roubini
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork… — H. L. Mencken
Canned music is like audible wallpaper. — Alistair Cooke
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that… — Frederic Raphael
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or… — Aleister Crowley
I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they… — John Shelton Reed
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food. — Dwight Yoakam

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