Enactingthat Quotes & Sayings

Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional? — Elena Kagan

Let the author beware of popularity, otherwise he will be defeated by success. There is a time when you must take a picture of yourself. Hunger is always the same as the first hunger. The need renews itself empty and entire. — Clarice Lispector

The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989. — Philip French

Interceded? You threw me to the sharks! — Stephenie Meyer

Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in. — Charles Bukowski

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman. — George Bernard Shaw

I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that. — Simon Bird

Closets, schmosets, everyone's out of the closet. Now where the fuck are the men! — Larry Kramer

One speaks of 'dream' and another of 'reality'. Which is which, and how does one choose? The mind is the knife that cuts the one from the other. All is real and all is dream, and the difference is the knife of the mind. — William R. Cares

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven. — Jaggi Vasudev

You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning. — Andrew Jackson

You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation. — Marc Benioff

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us. — Lazarus Of Bethany

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer. — Nicole Krauss

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family. — James Nesbitt

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market. — Robert Skidelsky