Lamalfa Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don't know if six states is a solution because is Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country really going to give California 10 new senators? — Doug LaMalfa

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness,
whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government. — Doug LaMalfa

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom! — Candace Bushnell

A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. — Doug LaMalfa

I don't do effortless myself, but I like it in other people. — Susan Juby

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters. — Alan Ball

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. — Steve Carell

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man. — Farley Mowat

Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental. — Richard Peck

It was good to travel to the other side of the world. — Andre Braugher

And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon's choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally. — Mark Haddon

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion. — Sarah Lafleur

Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect
he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I shall be obliged to put in something of myself. — Susanna Clarke