Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?

Giancarlo Esposito

I look at 'Breaking Bad' as a show about the American family.

Harvey Pekar

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Harold Pinter

Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

Jacques Attali

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

James Gandolfini

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Gloria Gaither

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Henry Clay

I'd rather be right than President.

Helen Thomas

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

John Maynard Keynes

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

Jodi Kantor

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Keating Holland

Americans may rally around a president when he sends troops to war but not when he sends them the bill.

Christopher Shays

This president had a right to rejoice. But it was just a compassionate, wonderful speech,

Jean Offutt

There were no surprises for us. But we're still waiting for the other two steps, which will be the president and Congress.

Alberto Gonzales

This may be the most important thing a president does.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Robert Jordan

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

William Hazlitt

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

William Hazlitt

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

Morning Star

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?

Marcel Proust

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

Joseph Addison

As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.

Joseph Addison

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.