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1141 quotes by 943 authors

Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes.… — Tina Fey
A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also… — Ron Paul
These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll… — Maureen Johnson
DiscomfortWearâ„¢, shapewear designed to eliminate rills, ripples, and muffin tops. In some cases known to eliminate circulation and breathing. If youâ€™re not uncomfortable, itâ€™s not… — Libba Bray
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy,… — Herman Wouk
Iâ€™d designed my avatarâ€™s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and… — Ernest Cline
Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths. — R C Sproul
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes. — Ha-Joon Chang
The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things,… — Donald Miller
CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal… — Neil Gaiman
The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the… — John Vaillant
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an… — Peter Kreeft
For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed. — Joe Dunthorne
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of… — Douglas Adams
Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a… — Christopher Hitchens
My body is not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive care and drive. — Janet Evanovich
You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but thereâ€™s something about knowing you woke up… — Tina Fey
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride… — H. L. Mencken

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