Madea's Class Reunion Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances. — George Cukor

What made you wake up one morning and decide to try to take down the United States government? — Aimee Carter

It's a special key.'
'How so?'
'It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. — Jennifer Donnelly

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future. — Robert Plant

They are ghosts of people I never knew, which the rain will wash away. — Amy Reed

The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig its elections, bribe its politicians, appoint its tyrants and, by every sophisticated means of persuasion and interference, stunt the emergence of young democracies in the name of democracy. — John Le Carre

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response. — Tim Gunn

The truth was, somewhere down the line, between the hospitalisations and the drugs, I'd somehow lost the cornerstone of humanity: the ability to pretend, to counterfeit the basics of social interaction, to smile when you didn't feel like smiling, to seem like you cared about other people when you lacked the capacity to care about yourself. So that left me, graceless and wearied, pretending to pretend. — Alexis Hall

Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. The answer isn't just to introduce new words (boi, cis-gendered, andro-fag) and then set out to reify their meanings (though obviously there is power and pragmatism here). One must also become alert to the multitude of possible uses, possible contexts, the wings with which each word can fly. Like when you whisper, You're just a hold, letting me fill you up. Like when I say husband. — Maggie Nelson

No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen. — Russell Crowe

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart ... " — Charles Dickens

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it. — Karl Lagerfeld

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. — Theodore Roosevelt

It was a witty fiction of the poets, that when Mercury had cast Argus into a sleep and with an enchanted wand closed his eyes, he then killed him. When Satan has by his witcheries lulled men asleep in sloth, then he destroys them. Some report that while the crocodile sleeps with its mouth open, the Indian rat gets into its belly and eats up its entrails. So while men sleep in security they are devoured. — Thomas Watson