Grandmere Pointed Quotes & Sayings

She grinned at me. 'You got types?'
'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. — Dashiell Hammett

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations — Winston S. Churchill

I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I could talk. I know Johnson, but I have not yet a clear opinion of him. — Sukarno

He knew when he had them, knew when they were getting bored, and knew when to wrap things up. — Andrew Young

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. — Thomas Jefferson

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. — N. F. Simpson

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. — Walter Chrysler