L926 Battery Quotes & Sayings

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery. — P.D. James

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs. — Enrique Pena Nieto

The road to salvation is through truth. — Swami Vivekananda

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius. — Christoph Waltz

I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water — T. Boone Pickens

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap. — Tom Clancy

Rose's experiences had transformed her from a provincial innocent with a Caribbean accent into a woman of sophistication and hard realism, but the uncertainties of her position had taken their psychological toll, inclining her to extravagance and promiscuity. The bloom of her youth was beginning to fade, and she had such bad teeth ("like cloves") that rather than open her mouth to laugh, she maintained a tight-lipped smile whilst snickering through her nose, and went out of her way to avoid eating in company. — Paul Strathern

Finally, she took him in, all wet and sexy beneath her.
Every breath and groan echoed over the water. She alternated her gaze from the stars in heaven to the rock star that was currently her heaven. — Lisa Gillis

Now these remarks caused a great deal of resentment, hatred, misery, bloodshed, and death. The creatures began to quarrel, and then to wage war with one another. The owl families were continually in disagreement with the hawk families. Neither the hawk families nor the owl families would listen to the entreaties of the swan families to live in peace with them. The magpie quarrelled with every bird and with the smaller animals, especially the mouse and rat families. — W. Ramsay Smith

Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money. — Andrei Codrescu

Child!' Eleanor exclaimed. 'You didn't say there'd been a child!'
'I said a catastrophe,' her mother replied. 'And believe me, in cases such as these, the words are one and the same. — Eloisa James

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor. — Channing Tatum