Leslies Pool Online Quotes & Sayings

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair. — Maya Angelou

My parents are definitely reformed hippies. — Alison Brie

I wonder ... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling. — Chris Matthews

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one. — Aaron Sorkin

There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like. — George W. Bush

Children's play is a way to express innate, spontaneous creativity. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable). — Sariah Wilson