Ginned Up Quotes & Sayings

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential. — John Drinkwater

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity. — Gabriel Byrne

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid. — Edward Norton

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. — Jello Biafra

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway. — Claire McCaskill

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think. — Robert Pinsky

Our minds are a lot like the sea ... you wake up some days and its rough and stormy. — Jaimal Yogis

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. — Hannah Arendt

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. — M.C. Escher

The truest measure of success is successity: enriching lives positively. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see. — Annie Leibovitz