161718 Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good ... He'd give me some good information. — Al Franken

[The USA in the '70s] The country's cinematic output was appropriately bleak, reflecting the moroseness and self-hatred that riddled the national psyche. Anti-heroes such as Bonnie and Clyde, Travis Bickle, Popeye Doyle and the Corleones dominated the box office and the public wallowed in a morass of guilty introspection. There was never a country in more desperate need of a blow job than the United States of America: enter George Lucas. — Simon Pegg

I refuse to be silenced. — Al Goldstein

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. — J.K. Rowling

Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving. — Sara Henderson

Was this what it meant to grow up, to move on? — Heather Demetrios

The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes. — George MacDonald

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. — Benjamin E. Mays

Some nights stay up till dawn,
as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way
of a well, then lifted out into light. — Rumi