Bromides Define Quotes & Sayings

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy. — Jessi Klein

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London Review of Books published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward painted a picture of an almost fascist America where Arab and Muslim citizens were being daily terrorized by pogroms, these being instigated by men like Paul Wolfowitz who had talked of 'ending' the regimes that sheltered Al Quaeda. Again, I could hardly credit that these sentences were being produced by a cultured person, let alone printed by a civilized publication. — Christopher Hitchens

The first draft is your "vomit onto the keyboard" draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts. — Sean Platt

You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this. — Pauline Neville-Jones

The main priority of the Socialist Party is education. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic. — Evelyn Waugh

Sunny likes me, Mama, she had said that night at dinner after he'd been sent from the table for making his napkin into a hand puppet and refusing to make the hand puppet be quiet. — Anna Quindlen

Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary in rain-magic, and the power of predicting rain was attributed to the bee. — Hilda M. Ransome

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out. — John Barrasso

We will civilize you yet," she retorted.
"I don't know," Tristan said abruptly. "I rather like him uncivilized." Then he seemed to realize what he'd said, and went crimson. — Rowan Speedwell

Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology. — William Clay Ford Jr.

While I respect suicidal tendencies on most days, you'd do well to remember who you're addressing and, more to the point, what I can do to you. No one says you have to go back to Tartarus in one piece. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon