Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Kinnock

He addressed a grown-up party in a grown-up way. It's not going to repair anyone's gastric ulcer, but at least they know where he stands.

Jack Osbourne

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

Isak Dinesen

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

Ishmael Reed

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

Irvine Welsh

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Iris Murdoch

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Ina Garten

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

Ina Garten

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

Ida B. Wells

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

James Callaghan

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

J. William Fulbright

We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

J. R. R. Tolkien

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

Francis Quarles

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Hugh Jackman

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

Horace Mann

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Gloria Steinem

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Gloria Steinem

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Harry S Truman

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

J. K. Rowling

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

J. K. Rowling

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

J. K. Rowling

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

H. L. Mencken

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

H. L. Mencken

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

H. L. Mencken

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

J. Reuben Clark

Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned, I want to know what the man stands for....When I find out these things, then I know who it is who should receive my support, and I care not what his party tag is....Today, our duty transcends party allegiance; our duty today is allegiance to the Constitution as it was given to us by the Lord.

Georg Buchner

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

Jessica Valenti

My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

I don't think that we are putting any more weight on this particular theory than we have on any others,

Margaret Mahy

I am not recommending this sort of experience, but I think that in writing this particular story I was remembering the quality of it all.

Comerica Park a bandbox. Who would have thought?