Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roseanne Barr

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

Roseanne Barr

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

Roger Scruton

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

Roger Ebert

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

Roger Ebert

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Roberto Benigni

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Whoopi Goldberg

Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.

Warren Spector

Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while

Ronald Reagan

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

Ronald Reagan

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Ronald Reagan

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Ronald Reagan

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Ronald Reagan

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

Saint Augustine

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

Xi Jinping

Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.

Xi Jinping

Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

Xi Jinping

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.

Xi Jinping

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China].

Winston Smith

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

Wole Soyinka

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Wole Soyinka

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

Wiz Khalifa

Last night I let the party get the best of me.

Winston Churchill

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

Wilson Mizner

A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.

Wilson Mizner

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Will Self

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.

Will Self

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

Will Rogers

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Will Rogers

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

Will Rogers

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Will Rogers

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

Will Rogers

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Wes Boyd

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.