Isms Portal Quotes & Sayings

When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.' — Thomas Hoving

My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft. — Alec Berg

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! — Mignon McLaughlin

He considers me just a uterus with legs. — Mary Beth Whitehead

Technicians' Emergency Service" (TechnischeNothilfe),"notorious" for their role in strike breaking — Anonymous

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception. — Ervin Staub

With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience. — Lisa Gerrard

Going to say it anyway," said Graff. "Poor fool of a boy. Pacifism only works with an enemy that can't bear to do murder against the innocent. How many times are you lucky enough to get an enemy like that? — Orson Scott Card

Dark, was banned by the Irish state censor for obscenity. The story was set, as so much of McGahern's later fiction would be, in isolated rural Ireland and dealt with the bleak consequences of parental and clerical child abuse. On the instructions of the Archbishop of Dublin, McGahern was sacked from his job as a primary school teacher. He later left the country. Despite these apparent setbacks, McGahern's literary friends reassured him that all this was a wonderful opportunity in terms of publicity and sales. Remember Joyce and Beckett being forced overseas? This was Irish literary history repeating itself, and preparations were soon being made to mount a campaign against the anachronistic and widely derided censorship laws with McGahern as the figurehead.
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McGahern agreed that the situation was indeed absurd, and says that even as an adolescent reader he had nothing but contempt for the censorship board. — John McGahern

I think you've been lying to yourself so long that you don't know what the truth is anymore. — Kelly Moran

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud. — Rush Limbaugh