Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deion Sanders

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

Dean Martin

When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

Amar'e Stoudemire

You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

Amartya Sen

If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You can’t win many elections after a famine, and you don’t like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.

Anthony Quinn

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

Andrew Young

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

Andrew Bacevich

The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.

Anchee Min

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

Chuck Palahniuk

I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

Chuck Hagel

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

Chuck Grassley

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

Chuck Klosterman

Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

Chuck Klosterman

If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.

Chuck Klosterman

I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

Chuck D.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

Christopher Walken

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

Annie Proulx

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...

Angie Harmon

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class...

Andrea Mitchell

... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.

Andrea Tantaros

Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do.

Andrea Tantaros

We need to tap into new issues. There's a way to resurrect the sound policies of our party, but also to look toward new issues - kitchen-table issues like the rising cost of education. I think that's a winning issue for Republicans.

Andrea Tantaros

I think a New Guard-type of Republican - Eric Cantor is a rising star in the party.

Amr Moussa

I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.

Amos Oz

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

Angela Merkel

I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will reveal that the differences between the parties, which have been greatly exaggerated in some quarters, aren't that significant after all.

Anne Roiphe

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

Anna Faris

My wedding will be a great party where I can get drunk and have a good time.

Anna Faris

Years ago, I was thinking about this type of character and what happens when you've lived in this sort of strange, surreal world where it's parties all the time and then you don't get to live there anymore. What do you do with the rest of your life?

Anna Julia Cooper

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

Anita Ekberg

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

Andrew Sullivan

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

Andrew Sullivan

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

Clay Aiken

I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.