53188 Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing. — Kurt Vonnegut

You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what other influences are. — Edwin Moses

It takes exactly eighteen shots tae polish off a fifth o' a bottle o' Scotch, thus, a game o' golf equates tae eighteen holes ... — Steve Alten

Passion does not compensate for ignorance. — Samuel Chadwick

Marrying into a different culture means you are not trapped by your own, which is how I felt." Wang — Angela Nicoara

I wish I could protect you from the world. It's a cold, dark place. It has very little light, where it used to abound in it, but alas, I am one lone candle. I cannot speak for the world. Just for what I've seen and felt. Being in the world means you could very well realize how lost you are. You find out, you cannot find yourself all alone. However, as long as a light shines, all hope is not lost. One day we'll all know for certain which paths are best traveled, and which were left narrow. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame. — Steve McNair

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also. — Bruce Springsteen

Why?"
"Because ... because he's so tall," Mindy explained, like height was proof of good character. "And did I mention European?"
"Yes. It's so much better to be stalked by a tall European that an American of average height. — Beth Fantaskey

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays. — Louise Jordan Miln

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it. — Allen Toussaint

Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He even called the Fort Hood murderer 'workplace violence.' Because it's politically incorrect to talk about 'jihad,' or to talk about 'terrorist,' or to talk about 'the war on terror.' He won't say those words, because they're politically incorrect. — Rafael Cruz

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other. — Julian Aguon