Emmetts Lego Quotes & Sayings

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line. — Hans-Werner Sinn

Can't make chicken salad out of chicken noodle — Mike Ditka

I just asked her if she'd seen anything odd, and she started to say-"
"Oh - that - that's nothing to do with the Chamber of Secrets," said Percy at once.
"How do you know?" said Ron, his eyebrows raised.
"Well, er, if you must know, Ginny, er, walked in on me the other day when I was - well, never mind - the point is, she spotted me doing something and I, um, I asked her not to mention it to anybody. I must say, I did think she'd keep her word. It's nothing, really, I'd just rather
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Harry had never seen Percy look so uncomfortable. — J.K. Rowling

I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have people who grow old with you, and you stay with them through their life. We've got a few sentences, maybe, to say what life's about. Hopefully, we'll get a chapter later. — Brian Fallon

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs and stain your sheets to remind you that all you're doing is bleeding and dying if you're not making more life. That — Catherine Lacey

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now, I'm not stupid, but when you see that your ticket to college is either football or your brains, and football is so much more fun, you tell me which one you'd pay attention to.
(Jameson) — Shukyou

What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat. — Dave Barry

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes — William Shakespeare