Coarsely Ill Quotes & Sayings

It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is ... he's black. — Bill Maher

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours? — George Edward Moore

On that island was a lighthouse I had seen every single summer of my entire life and my mother, too, had seen it her entire life, and I wondered how it might affect your way of thinking, if you always had a lighthouse in the corner of your eye. — Per Petterson

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything. — Bryant McGill

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all? — Henry David Thoreau

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters. — Annie Lennox

If you're not scared of your dreams, they aren't big enough. — John Stanmeyer

She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty of age as early as possible. — George Eliot

Same seeks same; we search out the familiar. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring. — Thomas Overbury

Positive words are easier to remember than negative words (Ludwig, 1984). — Keith S. Folse

In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011. — Arthur Laffer

Touring for two years is excruciating. — Chester Bennington

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books. — Augustine Birrell