Annuals Quotes

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Money, Business

David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

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Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

Erma Bombeck

Funny Friendship, Garden, Years

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Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Katharine Whitehorn

Weed, Nature, Garden

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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

Brenda Ueland

Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams

Patriotic, Voting, Slavery

"Wise Words and Quotes". Book by Vernon K. McLellan (p.281), 2000.

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I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Bill Budge

Years, Apples, Income

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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Wallace Stevens

Nature, Spring, Silly

Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

Time, Years, Philadelphia

John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.50, Anza Publishing

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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

Jack Welch

Inspirational, Running, Challenges

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

Earl Blumenauer

Radio, Corporations, Majority

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I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Real, Believe, Film Music

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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Bernard M. Oliver

Energy, World, Matter

Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

Tipper Gore

Government, Ideas, Lenses

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Hjalmar Branting

League, Assembly, Century

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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

Robert Ballard

Ocean, Years, Sea

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You do something annual every year, don't you?

George Noory

Years

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With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Years, Sea, Investment

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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Rudolf Arnheim

Confusion, Hospitality, Mets

Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

Margaret Spellings

Assessment, Years, Understanding

"Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

A. E. van Vogt

Science, Years, Fiction

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As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Ernst Toller

Kings, Hero, Boys

Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

Dave Barry

Inspiring, Weight Loss, Years

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, New Year

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.10, Purdue University Press

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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Views, Alcohol, Drug

Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Clifton Fadiman

Birthday, Wall, Years

Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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