Mined Quotes

32 Mined quotes by 31 unique authors

There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined,… — Di Morrissey
Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and… — Van Jones
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on… — Gretel Ehrlich
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of… — Carl Safina
Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off.… — James M. Cain
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every… — Heather O'Neill
The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy… — Ivan Illich
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the… — Julianna Baggott
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to… — Rumer Godden
This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out. — Ralph Nader
It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide… — Huston Smith
I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details. — Sissy Spacek
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came… — Kevin Spacey
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying… — Chuck Eddy
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of… — Ayelet Waldman
The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for… — Paul D. Boyer
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by… — Lord Byron
Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to… — Mike Harding
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. — Napoleon Hill
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. — Dan Savage
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks.… — Douglas Rushkoff
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides… — George Carlin
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and… — Salman Rushdie

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