Footlights Merle Quotes & Sayings

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people. — Frankie Valli

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine. — Yukio Mishima

The road of grief is often long and lonely and many stones need to be moved out of the way, but it is not without its lighter moments. — Louise Suzanne Boyd

The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. — Jim Doyle

He didn't want to be great, but to be thought great. — Ayn Rand

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W.E.B. Du Bois

[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine. — Peter Ferrara