Being A Saver Quotes

“The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything ... he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys.”

— Jack Kerouac Atop An Underwood Early Stories And Other Writings

“If the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the laptop? A light saber or a life saver?”

— K.S. Collier

“I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the elements memorized; rattle off the kings and queens of Spain; define the significance of the Gatling gun; joke around in Latin; interpret the symbolism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old; recite Emily Dickenson; bake a perfect popover; build a shortwave radio out of a coconut; and know all the words to Hoagy Carmichael's "Two Sleepy People", Johnny Cash's "Five Feet High and Rising", and "You Got the Silver" by the Rolling Stones ... What we need is a president who is at least twelve kinds of nerd, a nerd messiah to come along every four years, acquire the Secret Service code name Poindexter, install a Revenge of the Nerds screen saver on the Oval Office computer, and one by one decrypt our woes.”

— Sarah Vowell

“I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit here and wither away in paradise?"
Just an obstacle. Just an obstacle.
I meet the ifrit's eyes. "What happened to all your talk about birds and fish having nowhere to live?"
The ifrit shrugs. "I suggest you start holding your breath, my friend," he says, then pushes through the hearing room doors.”

— Jackson Pearce

“The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.”

— Robert Olen Butler

“If you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being black-friendless, you can either go to the nearest black church and strike up a conversation, or just fire up Facebook, search for "black people," and start clicking "Add Friend" on the names in the resulting lists. Technology is amazing and quite a time-saver.”

— Baratunde R. Thurston

“Zawinski: Sometimes. I end up doing all the sysadmin crap, which I can't stand-I've never liked it. I enjoy working on XScreenSaver because in some ways screen savers-the actual display modes rather than the XScreenSaver framework-are the perfect program because they almost always start from scratch and they do something pretty and there's never a version 2.0. There's very rarely a bug in a screen saver. It crashes-oh, there's a divide-by-zero and you fix that.”

— Peter Seibel

“Now that's a sight for sore eyes, Sebastian. Maybe I should just leave you here: the hotel maids might appreciate that. Or, better still, maybe I'll take a photograph of you on my phone. Dont worry, I wont post it on the internet, it'll just be my screen saver.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“But I was kind of surprised that God would send a saver to me in such raggedy clothes.”

— Christopher Paul Curtis

“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”

— E.B. White

“In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.”

— Etgar Keret

“They were all women's magazines, but they weren't like the magazines my mother and sister read. The articles in my mother's and sister's magazines were always about sex and personal gratification. They had titles like "Eat Your Way to Multiple Orgasms," "Office Sex-How to Get It," "Tahiti: The Hot New Place for Sex," and "Those Shrinking Rain Forests-Are They Any Good for Sex?" The British magazines addressed more modest aspirations. They had titles like "Knit Your Own Twin Set," "Money-Saving Button Offer," "Make This Super Knitted Soap-Saver," and "Summer's Here-It's Time for Mayonnaise!”

— Bill Bryson

“Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.”

— Richard C. Armitage

“For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.”

— George Ade

“You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.”

— Leslie Nielsen

“Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.”

— Tom Robbins

“Within him, as he hurled himself forward, was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him. It was a creation of beauty and invulnerability. It was a goddess, radiant, that bended its form with an imperious gesture to him. It was a woman, red and white, hating and loving, that called him with the voice of his hopes. Because no harm could come to it he endowed it with power. He kept near, as if it could be a saver of lives, and an imploring cry went from his mind.”

— Stephen Crane

“Yoga is a life-saver.”

— Ione Skye

“'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'”

— Matthew Scully

“I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.”

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

“Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.”

— Tamara Taylor

“I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.”

— Joely Richardson

“I have a beautiful platter of various fruits as my computer screen saver. It's a constant reminder to eat healthy! It helps me to make healthier food choices throughout my day.”

— Drew Sidora

“For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.”

— Nicolas Cage

“I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can't go past without going into. I just can't resist lovely stationery.”

— Joanna Lumley

“I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.”

— Cherie Lunghi

“I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.”

— Kat Dennings

“When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.”

— Linus Torvalds

“Because, you see, everything you know about the way this universe works is correct-except for the little problem that this isn't the only universe we have to worry about. Information can leak between one universe and another. And in a vanishingly small number of the other universes there are things that listen, and talk back-see Al-Hazred, Nietzsche, Lovecraft, Poe, et cetera. The many-angled ones, as they say, live at the bottom of the Mandelbrot set, except when a suitable incantation in the platonic realm of mathematics-computerised or otherwise-draws them forth. (And you thought running that fractal screen-saver was good for your computer?)”

— Charles Stross

“I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.”

— Murray Walker

“Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case ...”

— Ian Doescher

“Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.”

— Lisa Birnbach

“FaceTime is a life saver for relationships and for family.”

— Erika Christensen

“Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.”

— Joe Morgan

“Doing yoga on the road was really a life-saver, and a life-changer ... .It kept me focused and gave me more control over the way I divided my energy. I realize that if [a place of goodness] is the basis for all decision-making, then the road is clear.”

— Sheryl Crow

“Monogamy is a huge time-saver.”

— Steve Sailer

“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”

— William Ernest Hocking

“It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.”

— Roger Ebert

“Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through.”

— Andy Murray

“If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.”

— Norman Cousins

“The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.”

— George Herbert

“What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.”

— William J.H. Boetcker