Germ Quotes

There is this one tabloid reporter I know. She gets some germ of a rumor and expounds on it. She just goes nuts. I finally called and a asked what her problem was. She said, Well, honey, we are trying to create this bad-boy image for you, and it sells issues.I tried to reason with her by asking how she would feel if she was the target of those stories. Basically, she told me that the newspaper was trying to perpetuate a James Dean image for me. I lost it and said, Lady, James Dean died at 24, and that`s not the image I want. It made no difference. They are hopeless. (Penthouse 1993)

(Quoted by Ted Morgan in the book "FDR", Simon & Schuster, 1985) I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) recommending that atom bombs be made . . . but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

And is there a movie, whatever the genre here, that I would like to go see? If I can see the germ of that there, I`ll usually take the job.

There`s always a germ of truth in just about everything.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people`s money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

Most people would say no, but the reality is when you get typecast like that there`s got to be some germ of something in there, ... Seinfeld.