Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Cole

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Joshua Slocum

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

Josh Billings

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Oswald Spengler

When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

Oscar Wilde

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

Kapil Dev

Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.

Kara Swisher

Our brand is sassy people ripping apart technologists, then going to a party with them.

Kanye West

Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

Julian Cope

Im going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didnt cause them any later embarrassment.

Julian Fellowes

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Joyce Meyer

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there...

Paul Keating

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Paul Keating

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together

Paul Krugman

Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.

Paul Krugman

Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

Paul Krugman

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

Peter Greenaway

I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.

Pauline Hanson

It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

Katharine Whitehorn

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Katharine Hepburn

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

Karen Joy Fowler

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

Justin Hartley

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

Judy Chicago

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

Emanuel Cleaver

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

Emanuel Celler

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Emanuel Celler

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

Ellie Kendrick

My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

Elliott Carter

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

Jimmy Fallon

A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.

Jimmy Fallon

There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

Jimmy Fallon

In an interview, President Obama said he recently deejayed a small dance party at the White House. Obama has a lot in common with deejays. He takes requests and then completely ignores them.

Jimmy Fallon

Now that the midterm elections are over, President Obama has invited congressional leaders from both parties to a meeting at the White House tomorrow. When asked if he's nervous, Obama said, 'Oh, I'm not going to be there. I just invited them over. They can figure it out themselves.'