Chauncys Chance Quotes & Sayings

What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal. — Joe Biden

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? — Robert Downey Jr.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering. — Christian Louboutin

Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind. — Viet D. Dinh

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting ... a book that will stay there, a score you can read. — Jerome Robbins

I've lived the way I wanted to. I've walked the road the way I imagined it. — Kim Jong-hyun

People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life. — Lama Surya Das

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities. — John Owen

You can't hurt others without hurting yourself; you can't love others without loving yourself. — Debasish Mridha

The speech she made was done in the back, alone, like little shoes cobbled by an elf: spider is to web as weaver is to blank. That one was hers. She was proud of that. Also, blank is to heartache as forest is to bench. But — Lorrie Moore

You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
"No, indeed!"
"You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
"My dear fellow! I congrat-"
"To Milverton's housemaid."
"My dear Holmes!"
"I wanted information, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. — Dennis Potter