Explicating Shakespearean Quotes & Sayings

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State. — Thomas Jefferson

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government. — Paul Ryan

Sexual reproduction and food -- humans' two favorite subjects. — Melissa Landers

When you can't pitch with your arm, you go with your heart. — Orlando Hernandez

Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms - that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man - but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide. — James Shapiro

In fact, I was a kind of Hershey Bar whore - there wasn't much I wouldn't do for a nickel's worth of chocolate. — Truman Capote

I think about how no one in the car would come out and say it. We all know about these laws, we live here, but we don't talk about them. This is the first time I've ever seen them written down. — Kathryn Stockett

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. — John Sununu

Thank you. It's my job to protect you. It's my job to keep you safe. Let me do it or I'll fucking go insane — J. Sterling

Christian men ought not refrain from the sexual pollutions that surround us because they object to lovemaking; they refrain because they object to the wanton vandalism of it. Our culture is doing to sex what people who chew with their mouths open do to food. — Douglas Wilson

I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around. — Charles Mingus

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book. — Louie Anderson

I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty. — Jenji Kohan

The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming. — Marty Rubin

The past has shaped me, molded me into a monster. A monster with a persecuted heart and a dead soul. — J.A. Redmerski