Casablanca Captain Renault Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I'm online all the time now. I'm not an outdoorsy type. — Kevin Smith

If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't. — Howard Zinn

In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us. — Don Richard Riso

There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash. — Laura A. Lord

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century. — George Pataki

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Go back to your bingo hall. — Jerry Lawler

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs. — Oliver Goldsmith

Most of us are not really so arrogant as to think we have a right to remold the world in our image. The best we can do, toward redeeming the states of Europe and Asia from the menace of revolution and the distresses of our time, is to realize our own conservative character, suspicious of doctrinaire alteration, respectful toward history, preferring variety over uniformity, acknowledging a moral order composed of human persons, not of mere political and economic atoms subservient to the state. We have not been appointed the correctors of mankind; but, under God, we may be an example to mankind. — Russell Kirk

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored. — Chevy Stevens