Barcroft Station Quotes & Sayings

As President, I will institute a procedure in which all convicted criminals will have this brass ring will be surgically implanted into their foreheads-Americans have a right to know who they can trust. I don't care if you're 5, 6, or 7 years old, if you're a first-time offender, you're gonna go to Purgatory and it's not gonna be fun! — Bob Backlund

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging. — Betty Williams

The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure. — Mason Cooley

Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return. — Ali R.A

I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it. — Vendela Vida

Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess — Alan Bennett

What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we should posit and ascribe to it all the affirmations we make in regard to beings, and, more appropriately, we should negate all these affirmations, since It surpasses all being. Now we should not conclude that the negations are simply the opposites of the affirmations, but rather that the cause of all is considerably prior to this, beyond privations, beyond every denial, beyond every assertion. — Pope Dionysius

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer. — Alison Gopnik

See? Reading you all night has strengthened me. That's what God's love does. If you're beginning to feel uncomfortable now, it's because the changes in you are already beginning to happen and one day you'll be glad to say, Deliver me from meaninglessness. — Ian McEwan

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? — Alanis Morissette

It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah

Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on. — Charles B. Rangel

Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. — Shirley Jackson

How will your new job differ from your current job? — Ben Horowitz