1984 Spying Quotes & Sayings

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read. — Conan O'Brien

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk for three or four hours, and they'd take it back and it would be transcribed, and it would be given to the writers, those many writers you see on all those shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, etc. And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show. — James Lipton

Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn't have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project. — Jacque Fresco

I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers. — Maisie Williams

Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

I'd heard or read somewhere that the ability to feel pain is the first thing to go. That's not true. The ability to care goes first. — Vikki Wakefield

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. ( ... ) However bad life may seem ( ... ) While there's life, there is hope. — Stephen Hawking

As my father always says, there's no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient. — Christine Pope

If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies. — Rita Rudner

You can dream about something for so long, but sometimes reality doesn't exactly live up. — Sara Shepard