Funny Terry Francona Quotes & Sayings

Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in the midterm elections. But no one has told Republican candidates, who are still pounding away at the Affordable Care Act on the stump. And no one has told voters, especially those in states with closely contested Senate races, who regularly place it among the top issues of the campaign. — Byron York

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years. — Sefi Atta

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. — Thomas Campbell

It's the most amazing thing in the world when you're together, but when it's over, it hurts. It hurts more than you could ever imagine. — Abbi Glines

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture. — Spiro T. Agnew

you have to be willing to give your customer-service staff the freedom to work without a script or specific instructions. If you don't dare do this, you have to ask yourself why they were hired in the first place if you don't trust their judgement. And if you don't show them that level of confidence, you shouldn't expect much commitment from them in return. — Lars Kolind

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. — Beverly Cleary

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. — Enya

No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt. — Tessa Dare

It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of literary anarchists. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked pages, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It could not be judged by any known standard, yet, although it was acknowledged that the supreme note of art had been struck in "The King in Yellow," all felt that human nature could not bear the strain nor thrive on words in which the essence of purest poison lurked. The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterwards with more awful effect. — Robert W. Chambers

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning. — Henry David Thoreau

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done. — Mary Douglas

Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate. — Karen Healey

It must have been a snapper — Gary Paulsen