“What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Reflected in You
“I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.”
on flying; quoted in [John E. McNamara, Remembering Alan's Humor, 2006, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/2006Jun/0009.html, 2006-12-26]
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“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Source: Brave New World
James Grier Miller (1916–2002) biologist
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)
“Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 453 (9 August 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Context: When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.
Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter
As quoted in " Zooey sings! http://detroit.metromix.com/music/article/zooey-sings/517858/content" by Matt Pais in Metromix (21 July 2008). <br class="br">Context: I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) American historian
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)
“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”
Gwen Bristow (1903–1980) American author and journalist
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Speaking with reporters after simultaneously reaching several milestones with one swing of the batː 2,000 career hits, 23 home runs (matching his previous high in 1961), and, for the first time in his career, 100 RBIs or more for a season; as quoted in "Clemente's 2,000th Puts Bucs On Top" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kbIiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZbMFAAAAIBAJ&dq=men-base-concerned-driving-run-getting-no&pg=755%2C515794 by Jeff Meyers (UPI), in The Beaver County Times (Saturday, September 3, 1966), p. C-1 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1966</big>
“I'll start the show any second now, I'm just warming myself up into a bundle of spite.”
Mark Lamarr (1967) British DJ
Uncensored and Live (1997)
“I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.”
Carolyn Keene book The Clue of the Broken Locket
Source: The Clue of the Broken Locket