1937 Congress Quotes & Sayings

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences. — Shin Kyung-sook

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. — Abraham Lincoln

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated. — Laura Benanti

We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here. — Al Davis

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — Alan W. Watts

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

do I look like the kind of girl to lie back demurely so my gentleman friend can politely slip his penis inside my vagina? I think not." He — E.J. Shortall

Just do me a favor first - go find the baby. Find out who has her. If I go out there now everybody's going to want to start talking and it'll be midnight before I find her. Take a quick walk around, would you do that? Make sure some drunk didn't leave her in a chair." "How will I know it's your baby?" Cousins asked. Now that he thought about it, he hadn't seen a baby at the party, and surely with all these Micks there were bound to be plenty of them. "She's the new one," Fix said, his voice gone suddenly sharp, like Cousins was an idiot, like this was the reason some guys had to be lawyers rather than cops. "She's the one in the fancy dress. It's her party. — Ann Patchett

Every encounter with God tells you more about God — Sunday Adelaja

In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season. — Yann Martel

Create a great future. Be happy NOW. — Thomas Flindt

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds. — Rick Scott

my experience, people who are very keen on The Lord of the Rings can be a bit odd. On the other hand, I was quite a Tolkien fan myself. — Sharon Bolton

We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people — Nikki Giovanni

The thought was this: to write the Sibeliuses' story from start to finish. To cull their story from the thousands or millions of conversations I had with them over the century that I knew them. To turn it into a book." -Elixir — Liz Moore