85705 Quotes & Sayings

Marx Marvelous is going to break the genius machine when he grows up. That's what everyone said. He hasn't, of course. — Tom Robbins

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners. — Henry Kravis

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute. — Alexandre Dumas

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. — Samuel Butler

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. — Karl Rove

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. — Johnnie Cochran

Nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find? — Jeanne Moreau

I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper
sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes,
new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind,
and the old things go, not one lasts. — Carl Sandburg

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon. — Eddie Condon

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them. — Barack Obama

As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it. — Jonathan Gold