Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Redwood

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

John Redwood

The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.

John Redmond

Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

John Ray

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

James K. Polk

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

John Perry Barlow

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

John Podhoretz

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

John Podhoretz

You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.

John Podhoretz

This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night'€™s State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

Mark Steyn

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

Mark Steyn

The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

Nick Cave

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

Paulo Coelho

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Nicolas Berggruen

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Nicholson Baker

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Nora Ephron

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

Marianne Williamson

Everyone, archetypally, is a parent to future generations.

Mason Cooley

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Mary Karr

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Michio Kaku

Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

Mae West

I'd like to see Paris before I die.

Louis Garrel

Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filmed, for streets that have never been filmed because there's a thing about Paris, where it's kind of like a charming music box, this luminous cocoon, like those things that have fake snow in them that you turn upside down.

Louis Garrel

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

Louis Farrakhan

Let's come together and form our own party, and give the other parties hell - and then vette who we want, and take down these crooked rotten politicians that are in Congress, in the White House, and in the Supreme Court.

Liza Minnelli

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

Michael Cunningham

We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

Michael Scheuer

When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.

Joseph Joubert

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

But it was really only a walk in the park for him.

Now, we take RVs and park right on the ranch.