Election Of 1824 Quotes & Sayings

The ability to accessorize is what elevates us from lower-life forms," I said in my lecture voice, choosing a pair of diamond-studded drops for my ear. "Like men. — P.C. Cast

We've had a deal of bad poetry, haven't we? Suggesting the climax to this thrilling and literary spectacle. The Olla Podrida, my sweet-hearts, will now be set on the fire. — Dorothy Dunnett

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp

This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak. — Bob Goalby

Stop making excuses and start making history. — A.D. Posey

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat. — Orson Welles

But no matter what my eyes report, there is beauty that lives under the skin, under the surface, under the standards set up for me by outside arbiters of what is good and true. Those arbiters are not always so reliable. They can be bought and sold. They can be marketed and manufactured. The real standards, the ones set forth by the One who made me, are solid, knitted into me at my beginning. This beauty is true and real, and it lives within the heart. It is my heart that must be trained to recognize this beauty. — Angela Doll Carlson

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not. — Viktor E. Frankl

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view. — Norman Finkelstein

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation. — Alexandra Patsavas

Ah, but that would require a spending time with God--more than an hour or two on Sunday, I suspect--getting to know Him, communing with Him, praising Him. — Lynn Austin

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. — Robert Breault