Danil Ishutin Quotes & Sayings

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. — Brander Matthews

I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers. — Barack Obama

We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. — John F. Kennedy

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot. — Dennis Miller

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable. — William Christopher Handy

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write. — Maureen Dowd

Come and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow. — William Shakespeare

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God. — Sun Myung Moon

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things. — Henryk Skolimowski

A hand fought best when it made a fist. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasn't for them, us fat women would have no one to dance with. — Roseanne Barr