Bicentenial Quotes & Sayings

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention ... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive] — Thurgood Marshall

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. — Margaret Mead

You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person. — Haruki Murakami

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness. — Fran Lebowitz

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. — Sun Tzu

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME! — Dave Niehaus

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another. — Kyle MacLachlan