Backstairs At The White House Quotes & Sayings

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known. — John Longenecker

And I couldn't take my eyes off Pete. He ate dinner like he always did, in three or four huge, whoofing bites, before heading back out front to his cone of warmth, his coffee, his cigarettes, and ghostly tunes piping from his little transistor radio. And most important, to whatever thoughts drowned out the voices of his own family saying "hello" and "happy holidays."
I watched him because I couldn't believe that could be anyone's comfortable horizon. A tiny porch on a dark corner near a highway. We lucked out living on a planet made thrilling by billions of years of chance, catastrophe, miracles, and disaster, and he'd rejected it. You're offered the world every morning when you open your eyes. I was beginning to see Pete as a representative of all the people who shut that out, through cynicism, religion, fear, greed, or ritual. — Patton Oswalt

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough. — Yasmina Reza

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing ... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it. — Jane Siberry

One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice. — Seth Godin

Then there was your voice
Like a windup tin toy
Like the sweetest nails on a chalkboard
That I ever heard — Michelle Dalton

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. — Samuel Richardson

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other. — Malcolm De Chazal

I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter! - Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor — Terry Goodkind