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“It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.”

Turns President Irony Hospitals Covered Throat President Obama Acid Obamacare Sore Throat Acid Reflux

Author:David Letterman

“Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.”

People Years Has Beens Whole Reality Careers Building Golden Educated Covered Retirement Ivy Tenure Retirement Years

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.”

Children Philosophy Asks Absolutes Complexes Philosopher Naked Covered Creeds Dogma Smallest Leafs Figs

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it - for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?”

Knows World Stills Earth Faces Stars Space Race Limits Achievement Ultimate Seeds Covered Adam Ants Colony Space Travel Crawling

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.”

Men Giving Years Different Seems Running Groups Fields Wall Baseball Appearance Covered Bricks Hood Robes Ivy Neckties Wrigley Field

Author:Hank Aaron

“He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.”

Wells Shows Earth Fighting Covered Grime

Book:No Longer at Ease

Source: No Longer at Ease

“Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers.”

Humans Kind May Two Ideas Moments Problem Names Answers Glory Notion Symbols Certainty Substitutes Covered Routine Monarchy Administrative Hereditary Ordination

Author:Laura Riding

“The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where by small holes were made in Mother Earth and even smaller seeds were deposited one at a time and neatly covered over as a cat does after having being naughty.”

Firsts Doe Made Earth Mother Process Century Cat Originals Seeds Holes Covered Mother Earth 19th Century Naughty Drills

Author:Ian Anderson

“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.”

Men World Want Art Stills Book Happiness Joy Lying Artist Time Lost Enjoy Sin Excellence Permanent Immortality Covered Butterfly Flood Monarchy Venice Sinking Great Book Dams Florence

Author:Romare Bearden

“My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.”

Knows Form Perfect Fashion Models Covered Gray Elegant Fashion Model Slinkies

Author:William Wegman

“Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.”

Eye Running Desire Dark Imagine Week Color Baby Mouths Universal Election Size Extremes Wide Rage Presidential Voting Live By Covered Sweat Potatoes Mute Presidential Election Infantile Hippo

Book:Idoru

Source: Idoru

“Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.”

Ifs Thinking Certain Fall Girl Sides Black Streets Asking Ice Covered Slips Alright Lanes Certain Death Black Ice

Author:David Bowick

“According to The New York Times, the mob has now gotten into Medicare fraud. But the good news is, when they do break your legs there's a good chance you're covered.”

Chance Break New York News Legs Covered Fraud Good News New York Times Medicare Good Chance

Author:Jay Leno

“It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!”

People Way Said Sometimes Seems Past Nations Too Much Ambition Sight Distance Response Disappointment Covered Our Future Our Past Stride

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.”

Age Dark Failing Tree Wind Broken Bird Seeds Snow Old Age Flight Plenty Covered Harsh Flocks Skimming Bare Trees

Author:William Carlos Williams

“What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.”

Matter Quality Moon Ultimate Saint Edges Wheels Covered What Matters Beard Shepherds Razors Lace Wagons Cupboards Rubble Metallic Wagon Wheels

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established.”

May Action Order Nations Path Plans Blood Red Army Sand Covered Yellow Palestine Carpet Red Carpet Unified Arab World

Author:Gamal Abdel Nasser

“The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.”

Matter Force Voice Pleasure Subjects Ignorance Huge Listening Drinking Mood Lust Intimacy Ease Theme Latin Covered Relevant Primitive Listeners Majesty Springtime Subject Matter Love Lust X Rated

Author:Carl Orff

“I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.”

People War Seems Today Wanted Stars Black Office Paper Window Scripts Extremes Covered Covered Up

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.”

Thinking Mean Might Car Bird Rain Majority Practicals Triumph Covered Freak Neat Poop Pollen

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.”

Years Lasts Covered Veils Turkish

Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”

Men Earth Heaven Too Much Dying Crosses Infinite Covered Loved Ones Babe Heaven And Earth Reproach Infamy Infinite Love

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.”

Heart Night Wonderful Heard Crazy Havens My Heart Moon Shadow Lonely Green Flight Covered Valleys Lanes Gypsy Wisps Skylarks

Author:Johnny Mercer

“His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."”

Heart Said Literature Break Creation Objects Strange Aim Rounds Covered Blank Fur Break Your Heart

Author:Donald Barthelme

“Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .”

Ignorance Eternal Senses Bliss Attachment Covered

Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna

“However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.”

Humans May Fighting Human Beings Capacity Remains Injustice Characteristics Covered Elementals Covered Up

Author:Rollo May

“Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.”

Ifs Men Way Want Reason Law Trouble Sitting Down And Profit One Man Covered Legislation Assured Monopoly Another Man Sitting Down

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.”

Beautiful Fall Rocks Mass Islands Covered Scenery Foliage

Book:Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

Source: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

“England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286”

Mean Country Cold England Tired Ugly Posts Covered Divided Hamburgers Slag

Author:Margaret Drabble

“The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.”

Way Today Christian Sides Media News Bigotry Covered News Media Anti Christian

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Health care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care.”

Care Force Process Decision Party Involved Cost Thirds Health Care Consumers Decision Making Covered Users Third Parties Decision Making Process Purchasers Health Care Costs

Author:George W. Bush

“Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.”

Rocks Beats Stones Disaster Covered Rolling Rolling Stones Moss Stasis

Book:The Quit

Source: The Quit

“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”

Long Faces Passion Lord Shame Confusion Covered Woe Alas Shameful Hurtful Loathe Disgraceful Indignant

Book:The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes

Source: The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes

“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”

Men Want Earth Values Given Cities Conditions Fields Changed Comfort Ocean Labor Misery Raised Forests Ships Plenty Desert Covered Possessed Savages Elegance Barbarism Talismans

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection...A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Ideas Earth Together Faces Form Individual Becoming Reflection Harmony Raises Scales Staring Covered Grain Expansion Domain Envelopes

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.”

Source: City of Saints and Madmen

“Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.”

War Stories Courses Roles Heard Identity Irony Covered

Book:Dispatches

Source: Dispatches

“The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.”

Covered Moss Gop

Author:Rand Paul

“Everybody was upset that Vladimir Putin was missing. He was in Switzerland with his girlfriend. She had a baby in Switzerland because in Russia childbirth is not covered by Putin-care.”

Care Missing Baby Russia Upset Girlfriend Covered Putin Childbirth Switzerland

Author:David Letterman

“The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.”

Wanted Courses House President White Meetings Golf Snow White House Covered Golf Course

Author:Craig Ferguson

“My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.”

Death Sleep Health Covered Manuscripts

Author:Frederic Chopin

“It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.”

Stories Shows Bigs Kids Today Young Forget Missing Humour Destruction Presses Noses Sat Interviews Covered Editors Legends Flood Reporters Journalistic Overlooking

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.”

Want Artist Minutes Couple Tests Hollywood Covered Belts Dvds

Author:Todd McFarlane

“There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck to the Have's. And today, Señor Don Quixote, people are more interested in having than in knowing. An ass covered with gold makes a better impression than a horse with a packsaddle.”

People World Kind Two Wisdom Today Used Politics Economy Knowing This World Gold Horse Stuck Impression Ass Liberalism Grandmother Covered My Grandmother

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and deplorable as if their limbs were covered with manacles. Abstract all property from the hands of labor and you thereby reduce labor to dependence; and that dependence becomes as complete a servitude as the master could fix upon his slave.”

Ifs Wisdom Hands Politics Millions Economy Masters Labor Absolutes Property Slave Abstract Liberalism Covered Dependence Bondage Limbs Servitude

Author:Lewis Henry Morgan

“Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.”

Wells Children Kids Millions Economy Program Covered Reach Out Medicaid

Author:Franklin Raines

“He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.”

Children Literature Concerned Photographer Covered Berlin Zoos Kidnapped Covered Up

Author:Martin Bashir

“We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.”

Wanted Film Literature Issues Appearance Covered Musicianship

Author:Martin Bashir

“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

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