Emitec Quotes & Sayings

They weren't even taking me seriously enough to bother removing my guns, which I took as a personal insult. — Rachel Bach

The biggest roadblock to middle-class economic advancement is that governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the average American taxpayer works 127 days - from January 1 until May 7 - just to pay taxes. — Thomas DiLorenzo

Perhaps it is becoming clearer why I felt no romance when you told me that you carried my last letter with you, everywhere you went, for months on end, unopened. This may have served some purpose for you, but whatever it was, surely it bore little resemblance to mine. I never aimed to give you a talisman, an empty vessel to flood with whatever longing, dread, or sorrow happened to be the day's mood. I wrote it because I had something to say to you. — Maggie Nelson

Life's too short to bullshit. — Naomi Campbell

I don't really care about having more fame than I have. — Jeff Bridges

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse — William S. Burroughs

I did not even know this existed ... this world, I did not know. I thought it existed only in one's head, and in dreams ... And now: here I am. — Helene Cixous

I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world. — Jerry Springer

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic. — David Pratt

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets. — Daniel Ellsberg

I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go. — Elton John

It was difficult for Rumfoord to take Billy seriously, since Rumfoord had so long considered Billy a repulsive non-person who would be much better off dead. Now, with Billy speaking clearly and to the point, Rumfoord's ears wanted to treat the words as a foreign language that was not worth learning. "What did he say?" said Rumfoord. Lily had to serve as an interpreter. "He said he was there," she explained. "He was where?" "I don't know," said Lily. "Where were you?" she asked Billy. "Dresden," said Billy. — Kurt Vonnegut

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? — Edna St. Vincent Millay