Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Donald Barthelme

HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

Tom Stoppard

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Tom Stoppard

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tina Fey

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Irvin S. Cobb

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Harry S Truman

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Jim Hightower

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.