Footnotes Used For Quotes & Sayings

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have. — Arlen Specter

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow — Morris Sheppard

I have a problem,' said Nikolai Nikolaivitch Asterinov, getting to his feet. 'I have a problem, that I wish to share with this, our science fiction writers' collective. We are to concoct a race of aliens against which humanity can unite. Spacefaring aliens, no?' 'Yes, of course.' 'Then this is my problem. We know the party line. The philosophy of the party has always been that capitalistic Western fantasies of launching rockets to other planets will always be doomed by the internal contradictions of the competitive inefficiency of capitalism itself. Only the combined and unified effort of a whole people would be able to achieve so monumental an achievement as interstellar flight. No capitalist race could ever achieve something as sophisticated as interstellar flight; only communists could do this. Now, how can it be that these evil aliens are able to build spaceships and fly across the void? Surely they are not communists? — Adam Roberts

If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive. — Robin Gibb

I'm a guy who gets more out of life than some people - more out of one big breath of fresh air than most people get from breathing in and out for a lifetime. — Vince McMahon

A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. — Prabal Gurung

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it. — Billy Graham

Over the years you have been subjected to a great deal of mind propaganda which has resulted in you reaching the ceiling of maximum potential by virtue of your current limited mindset. — Stephen Richards

The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day. — Jack Heath

Baseball life is a tough life on the family. — Nolan Ryan

The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later. — Peter Porter

Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts. — Jimmy Buffett

We sue each other too much and care for each other too little. — George H. W. Bush

Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum. — P.G. Wodehouse

Let me be a most successful failure. — Vivek Thangaswamy

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them. — Sharon Horgan