Quotes of: Washington-post Keyword

My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.

Maria Bamford

Donny: They posted the next round for the tournament. Walter Sobchak: Donny, shut the f- when do we play?

The Big Lebowski

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

Frank Carlucci

I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.

Frank Scott

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

Ivan Krastev

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.

Liam Hemsworth

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Some people think I'm a mycological heretic, some people think I'm a mycological revolutionary, and some just think I'm crazy.

Paul Stamets

Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.

Paul Stamets

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

Paul Stamets

While reishi mushrooms have historically been prepared as teas or infusions, other modern preparations include capsules, tinctures, and fractionated extracts of mushrooms, mycelium, and spores.

Paul Stamets

Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.

Paul Stamets

Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.

Paul Stamets

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

Robert Fortune

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

Robert Fortune

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Michael Baumgartner

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

Ryne Sandberg