Correspondents Dinner 2014 Quotes & Sayings

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. — Stephanie Mills

O shooting star
that fell into my eyes and through my body-:
not to forget you. To endure. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Armed with a hammer and sickle, singer and folklorist A. L. Lloyd hit the nail on the head and cut to the quick on page one of his monumental study of folk song: 'The mother of folklore is poverty.'3 — Rob Young

If we are poor learners, our teaching will be ineffective. — The Arbinger Institute

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls. — Adam Levine

Please Say A Prayer For All Who are Broken Hearted And Grief In Despair. May They Find Peace In The Loving Arms Of God And Comfort In Our Prayers. May They Pray For Us When It's Our Turn To Need Help In Our Own Despair. — Timothy Pina

Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive? — Sergei Yesenin

A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions. — Robert E. Howard

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky. — Eric McCormack

Practically every word ever written about Jesus of Nazareth, including every gospel story in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, was written by people who, like Stephen and Paul, never actually knew Jesus when he was alive (recall that, with the possible exception of Luke, the gospels were not written by those after whom they were named). — Reza Aslan

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. — Hesiod

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose. — Woody Allen

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. — Gaston Bachelard