Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Maguire

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

Huey Newton

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

Howard Hughes

I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.

Hannah Arendt

It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

Jalal Talabani

No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

Jim DeMint

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

Glenn Beck

It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

Jim Butcher

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Howard Staunton

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn

Howard Staunton

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

Howard Schultz

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

Howard Fineman

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

Howard Dean

The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

We are not in party politics anyway, because if we do stand we will be standing as independents.

Aeschylus

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Adam Pally

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

Adam Baldwin

You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.

Ludwig von Mises

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

Dave Haywood

I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!

Darrell Hammond

I belong to the Democratic Party.

David Levithan

That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something.