Buzzards Bay Quotes & Sayings

For so many of my characters, they were political in their own countries and they risked their lives for certain political beliefs that they had, only to be brought to America where they're not treated like Americans - they're just not really treated like anything. — Molly Antopol

The very qualities that had led to Johnson's political and legislative success were precisely those that now operated to destroy him: his inward insistence that the world adapt itself to his goals; his faith in the nation's limitless capacity; his tendency to evaluate all human activity in terms of its political significance; his insistence on translating every disruptive situation into one where bargaining was possible; his reliance on personal touch; his ability to speak to each of his constituent groups on its own terms. All these gifts, instead of sustaining him, now conspired to destroy him. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think my parents wanted me to be whatever I wanted to be. But I do remember them - when I first moved out to L.A. - sending me applications to grad school for teaching. — Riki Lindhome

I've watched snails climb over
ten foot walls and
vanish. — Charles Bukowski

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. — Leo Tolstoy

She was hollow and lost and abandoned up. — Alice Sebold

I find it interesting I couldn't hear The Creator's voice until I realized it was female. — Peter Wilkes

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect — Gautama Buddha

When he was rough, my body soared. When he was gentle, he slayed me. — Juliette Cross

After four thousand years we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer. — Peter Watts

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful. — Socrates

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. — Eric Bolling

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates. — James Thurber

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame. — Benicio Del Toro