Pipsqueaks And Piper Quotes & Sayings

But as Cicero had long tried to convince him, a speech is a performance, not a philosophical discourse: it must appeal to the emotions more than to the intellect — Robert Harris

Her parents had basically abdicated their roles as guardians and she was building a bomb. In order to kill a poodle. — Kristen Tracy

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. — Roger Von Oech

I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age. — James Nesbitt

There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us. — George Eliot

It's important for us as Democrats to stick together. — Frank Pallone

[T]he fact that he is a pastor has nothing to do with his physical appearance, these are politicians whose only weapon is the pulpit and even their non-violence does not really have a mystical aura about it: it is the only form of struggle possible and they use it with the controlled political skill which the extreme harshness of their conditions has taught them. — Italo Calvino

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them. — Joe Biden

Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure. — Lance Loud

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. — Johnny Carson

In science, however, "God did it" is not a testable hypothesis. Inquiring minds want to know how God did it and what forces or mechanisms were at work. "God works in mysterious ways" will not pass peer review. Even such explanations as "belief in God" or "religiosity" must be broken down into their component parts to find possible causal mechanisms for the links between belief and behavior that lead to health, well-being, and longevity. — Michael Shermer

Don't just be in the business and have fun 'cause you're a kid. You've gotta learn; this is your livelihood. — Tameka Cottle