Greatest Inaugural Quotes & Sayings

Three is a natural result for the number of dimensions. It is natural because it is a number close to one. The closer to one, the better, the more in line with our expectations. — Andrew Thomas

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people — Dante Alighieri

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. — Dolly Parton

mercy and justice are deadlier than any rifle or bayonet. — David Weber

Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome. — Sellapan Ramanathan

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient. — Peter Diamandis

Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. — Tom Wilkinson

The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding. — Richard Russo

I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them. — M. Night Shyamalan

I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could. — Sufjan Stevens

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone. — Goran Persson

Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty."
"It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused. — Maria V. Snyder

Words are forces of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates. — Tim Walberg