Quotes about asterisk

A collection of quotes on the topic of asterisk.

    Quotes about asterisk

    Stephen R. Covey photo

    “Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”

    Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

    China Miéville photo

    “Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.”

    China Miéville book Looking for Jake

    Source: Looking for Jake and Other Stories

    Sun
    D. Harlan Wilson photo

    “I've let you teach too many science fiction classes," I said.
    Dr. Identity's pupils mutated into large asterisks. "It's possible. More likely, however, I'm just a product of the future. and the future's been extinct for a long time.”

    D. Harlan Wilson (1971) novelist

    Dr. Identity: or Farewell to Plaquedemia (2007)

    Science, Time, Future
    W. Somerset Maugham photo

    “We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.”

    W. Somerset Maugham The Constant Wife

    The Constant Wife (1927)
    Plays

    Baby
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow photo

    “And now, my classmates; ye remaining few
    That number not the half of those we knew,
    Ye, against whose familiar names not yet
    The fatal asterisk of death is set,
    Ye I salute!”

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

    St. 13. <br class="br"> Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

    Death

    “Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?”

    John Mortimer (1923–2009) English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author

    Defending record shop proprietor Christopher Seale against obscenity charges for displaying advertisements for Sex Pistols' LP Never Mind the Bollocks, Nottingham Magistrates Court (14 November 1977)

    People, Imagination, Strong
    Daniel Tosh photo

    “We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk? Why don't people talk about that?”

    Daniel Tosh (1975) American stand-up comedian

    Happy Thoughts (2011)

    People