Impertinent Crossword Quotes & Sayings

...a clerk, a machine, a riding-school hack, eating and drinking and sleeping at fixed hours. I should be like everyone else. And that's what they call living, that life at the grindstone, doing the same thing over and over again.... I am hungry and nothing is offered to appease my appetite. — Honore De Balzac

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine! — Robert Green Ingersoll

I couldn't bring myself to call him either "Bill," which would signal friendly familiarity, or "Doctor Vogel," which would imply respect. — Frankie Bow

It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians are uncommonly fortunate to be here. — Geraldine Brooks

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own. — Anthony Kennedy

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people. — Heinrich Heine

Oh, Jimmy Mack, when are you comin' back? — Martha Reeves

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell — Jack Kerouac

Moonlight and high wind.
Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea. — Li-Young Lee

To be great at a few things and experience it, you'll have to say no to many things. — Craig Groeschel

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. — Frederick Lenz

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens. — Janos Kadar

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I should create a TV show called 61 Minutes. It'll be like 60 Minutes - only more. — Jarod Kintz

I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling ... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would rather stay and be the doctor of the nation and stay as surgeon general.' — Richard Carmona