Dauphine Potatoes Quotes & Sayings

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck. — Bill Maris

Obelisk?" "It's my favorite word." "Really?" "One of them, at least. Look at it." I look. "That is one straight-up, upstanding, powerful word. Unique, original, and kind of stealthy because it doesn't really sound like what it is. It's a word that surprises you and makes you think, Oh. All right then. It commands respect, but it's also modest. Not like 'monument' or 'tower.' " He shakes his head. "Pretentious bastards." I don't say anything because I used to love words. I loved them and was good at arranging them. Because of this, I felt protective of all the best ones. But now all of them, good and bad, frustrate me. — Jennifer Niven

Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep. — Carl Sagan

My grandmother is very liberal, but ... she still has her opinions. — Rutina Wesley

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business — Mark Twain

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined. — Thiruman Archunan

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan. — John Boehner

We don't see it as revenge or payback. This year's team is a different team. — Taurean Green

Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They're a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome. — Bobby Heenan

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. — Gene Luen Yang

We already have everything we need. — Pema Chodron

The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. — Maggie Stiefvater

Banish play and laughter from the bed of love and you may let in a false goddess. She will be even falser than the Aphrodite of the Greeks; for they, even while they worshipped her, knew that she was "laughter-loving." The mass of the people are perfectly right in their conviction that Venus is a partly comic spirit. We are under no obligation at all to sing all our love-duets in the throbbing, world-without-end, heart-breaking manner of Tristan and Isolde; let us often sing like Papageno and Papagena instead. — C.S. Lewis

I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is. — Thomas Pynchon