A Quote by George Carlin

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

George Carlin

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George Carlin
American - Comedian
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

George Carlin

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

Thomas Keller

The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time

Darren Rowse

True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.

Howard W. Hunter

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

Benjamin Graham

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

Paul Rogat Loeb

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

Gretchen Rubin

You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks

Laini Taylor

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

Robin Williams

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

Ryan White

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

W. C. Fields

Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me.

Catherynne M. Valente

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Francis Bacon

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

Anson Mount

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.

Grant Shapps

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