Quotes of Involving - somelinesforyou

“ A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp. ”

- Dave Barry

“ When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ”

- Robert Moog

“ People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife. ”

- Craig Kilborn

“ It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. ”

- Bill Bryson

“ Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ”

- James Thurber

“ A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. ”

- Dave Barry

“ As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. ”

- Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies

“ Titanic clashes in this video courtroom are likely to swirl around botched paint jobs, unshoveled sidewalks, defective toasters, aggressive guard dogs and every conceivable, and sometimes inconceivable, mishap involving a dry cleaner. ”

- Harry F. Waters

“ The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator. ”

- Henry Morris

“ At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers! ”

- John Hughes

“ The Constitution of the United States is a law, for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. ”

- David Davis

“ The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object… ”

- Abraham Lincoln
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