Istook Amendment Quotes & Sayings

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. — Aristotle.

...the man simply chooses not to be a public figure, an attitude that resonates on a frequency so out of phase with that of the prevailing culture that if Pynchon and Paris Hilton were ever to meet - the circumstances, I admit, are beyond imagining - the resulting matter/antimatter explosion would vaporize everything from here to Tau Ceti IV. — Arthur Salm

Best advice to writers - Read, write, read, write - repeat! — Lilly Cain

First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It's one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays. — Bruce Springsteen

I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get. — Bai Juyi

We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem. — Ernest Istook

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general. — Wynton Marsalis

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best. — William Arthur Ward

Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space! — Hal Duncan

Cleaning?" "Like Mary Poppins on crack. You know, the way women do that fast-forward cleaning when they're pissed off. — Suzanne Wright

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. — Ernest Istook

I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is. — Ed Asner

I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly. — John Hallock Jr.

My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration. — Sylvia Plath

That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound ... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time. — Muhammad Ali

Bigger women have more fat to live on. They can put out more effort. — Heidi

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within. — Quintus Ennius