Old Slapper Quotes & Sayings

Because you know something won't ever happen, it doesn't stop you longing for it.
I know I'll never be able to speak or sing with my own voice.
I don't know why.
I wish I did. — Kevin Crossley-Holland

On the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue. — Marsha Norman

Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'! — John Burgon

The demagogue does not manipulate the people; instead, the "ruler who behaves like a subject"57 slavishly follows the will of the people and fails to chart a course for the city beyond the narrows of popularity and passion. The demagogue runs democracy into the ground. But — Michael Signer

I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me. — Claire Danes

The argument about ethics and morality will have to go on in a post-religious society, just as it had to go on when religion was regnant and was often ordering good people to agree to evil things such as torture, slavery, or cruelty to children. — Christopher Hitchens

I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers. — Gary Johnson

I'm the kind of Flying Wallenda who prays for a good net. That's all. Just a good net. — Bridget Asher

God, I wish I was free. I wish I was a bird floating in the breeze. — Katie McGarry

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable. — David Halberstam

In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. — Davy Jones