February Quotes - Page 5

• I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

  Shawn Johnson

  June, September, Surgery

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• There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  June, Degrees, Sitting

  "Alexander Skarsgard: Interview with a vampire". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Moving, Fall

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.11, Anchor

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• To be honest with you, I walked into media day (in February at Daytona), and there were two people standing in line to conduct interviews, so from day one of this year, everybody’s kind of written us off.

  Kevin Harvick

  Media, Years, Two

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• For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.

  William K. Stevens

  Winter, Average, Years

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• The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day, until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a
  twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Children, Twilight, Weather

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• Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.

  Jay Leno

  Valentines Day, Men, Names

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• The colder the weather, the bigger the gun
  Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one
  In June it's .22's, February it's fifths
  But all year round, it's 616.

  Willie the Kid

  Rap, Gun, Clothes

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• Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

  Stanley Crawford

  Winter, Thinking, Luxury

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

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• Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

  Mae West

  Home, Sassy, Police

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• If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.

  Margaret Davis Bowen

  Mean, Scary, Faithful

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

  Edward Abbey

  Dark, Night, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Likes, Holes

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Crazy, Feelings, Next

  "Dustin Moskovitz: Why I Left Facebook To Start Asana" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Prayer, Children

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• Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Air, Clouds, Snow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.351, Library of America

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• I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Dinosaurs, Blogging

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• The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

  Manning Marable

  Brother, Islam, Cases

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious.

  Kristi Noem

  Needs, Looks, Addresses

  "Rep. Noem: Senate Budget Proposals ‘Ridiculous’". Fox News Interview, www.newsmax.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Technology, Should Have, Issues

  "Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Strategy". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1993.

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• January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  New Year, Self, Years

  "Get Some Sleep, and Wake Up the G.D.P." by Sendhil Mullainathan, www.nytimes.com. February 1, 2014.

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• There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Spring, Winter, Ice

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• I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.

  Killer Mike

  Real, Rap, Grandma

  Source: pitchfork.com

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