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Quotes About Occupies

The vice presidency "ought to be abolished," he told his friend Leonard Wood. "The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
You are a driver, he said, and I use the word in the loosest possible sense, i.e. meaning merely somebody who occupies the driving seat of what I will for the moment call - but I use the term strictly without prejudice - a car while it is proceeding along the road, of stupendous, I would even say verging on the superhuman, lack of skill. Do you catch my drift?
~ Douglas Adams
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
~ Henry Mayhew
Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I know. It's apathy.
~ David Wong
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer.
~ Erica Jong
To reduce sensation to a science, to make psychological analysis into a microscopically precise method - that's the goal that occupies, like a steady thirst, the hub of my life's will.
~ Fernando Pessoa
People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
~ Anthony Kiedis
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
~ Susan Sontag
When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil, and maybe splits apart and multiplies.
~ Gregory Maguire
Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
~ Simon Armitage
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
~ Susan Sontag
One who occupies his mind with an unholy interest in the moral weaknesses of others actually rouses and stimulates his own sleeping prenatal baser instincts.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
~ Marissa Mayer
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
~ David Lynch
He had every intention of becoming an alcoholic. It keeps you busy. Alcohol occupies every thought and provides a goal in times of despair: getting better.
~ Unknown