Obama Correspondents Dinner 2015 Quotes & Sayings

In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it. — Sadegh Hedayat

I have for some days held and controlled every avenue by which the people and garrison of Savannah can be supplied, and I am therefore justified in demanding the surrender of the city ... I am prepared to grant liberal terms to the inhabitants and garrison; but should I be forced to resort to assault, or the slower and surer process of starvation, I shall then feel justified in resorting to the harshest measures, and shall make little effort to restrain my army - burning to avenge the national wrong which they attach to Savannah and other large cities which have been so prominent in dragging our country into civil war. — William T. Sherman

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference. — Alan Valentine

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex. — Tim Reid

Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring. — Lucretius

For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily. — Irwin Winkler

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. — Jennifer Egan

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption. — Lenin

My kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder
lover you should have come over- — Jeff Buckley

For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology. — Margo Kingston