Chieftains Tour Quotes & Sayings

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that. — Kathleen Battle

Shamus ordered half a cup of house brew. Then he proceeded to fill the cup up the rest of the way with milk and sugar. Lots of sugar.
"Sure you got enough milk in your sugar?" I asked as we strolled out of the shop and headed south.
He flipped me off. "You drink your coffee your way, and I'll drink my coffee the right way. — Devon Monk

Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence. — Greg Smith

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. — Oliver Goldsmith

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents ... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense. — Zoe Leonard

This is perhaps the greatest lesson that interdependence has to offer us about right livelihood (and right living in general) in the twenty-first century: no person, and no profession, comes out completely clean, ever. On the other hand, no one is inherently defiled. — Ethan Nichtern

Propelled by fear or hatred, even a Jedi can pass beyond the constraints of the Order's teachings and discover power of a more profound sort. But no Jedi who arrives at that place, who has risen above his or her allegiance to peace and justice, who kills in anger or out of desire, can lay real claim to the dark side of the Force. Their attempts to convince themselves that they fell to the dark side, or that the dark side compelled their actions, are nothing more than pitiful rationalizations. That is why the Sith embrace the dark from the start, focusing on the acquistion of power. We make no excuses. The actions of a Sith begin from the self and flow outward. We stalk the Force like hunters, rather than surrender like prey to its enigmatic whims. — James Luceno

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas. — Geoff Mulgan

The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves — Henning Mankell

He is called a free spirit who thinks differently from what, on the basis of his origin, environment, his class and profession, or on the basis of the dominant views of the age, would have been expected of him — Friedrich Nietzsche

It is always safe to see yourself truthfully. You never have to be ashamed of yourself, with yourself. — Augusten Burroughs

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"] — William Hazlitt

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. — Friedrich Kittler

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. — George Papandreou