Ballot Monkeys Quotes & Sayings

Don't measure your wealth by how many things you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for. — Myrlie Evers

The country was lumbering towards election day. Strike turned in early on Sunday and watched the day's gaffes, counterclaims and promises being tabulated on his portable TV. There was an air of joylessness in every news report he watched. The national debt was so huge that it was diffcult to comprehend. Cuts were coming, whoever won; deep, painful cuts; and sometimes, with their weasel words, the party leaders reminded Strike of the surgeons who had told him cautiously that he might experience a degree of discomfort; they who would never personally feel the pain that was about to be inflicted. — Robert Galbraith

'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions. — Rainn Wilson

No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit. — Jack White

It's perfect and deep and breathtaking, and feels like it will never end. There has never been another kiss like this one in the entire universe. This is the kiss. The kiss to end all other kisses. — Callie Hart

My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work. — Jane Wagner

You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it. — Madonna Ciccone

As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do so. Now, amid the grizzled, battle-wise warriors, his strength seemed feeble, his knowledge clouded. — Lloyd Alexander

I've always loved jazz. — Rita Coolidge

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves. — Newt Gingrich

I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things. — Monica Hesse

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. — Lisa See

This Guy (Messi) is the Best Player in the World, no doubt about that. I think we're always nervous about calling people who are currently playing, who are young at 23, to say he's the Best Player ever. But we shouldn't be. We should admit what we are seeing in front of our eyes. This is a special talent, who may be is the Best Player ever been seen. — Gary Neville

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time. — Tommy Lee

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. — David Remnick