Piries Quotes & Sayings

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon

The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats? — Richard Jeni

As soon as [Patricia Highsmith] had stopped work, she felt purposeless and quite at a loss about what to do with herself. 'There is no real life except in working,' she wrote in her notebook, 'that is to say in the imagination.' It was in this state that she observed that only one situation would drive her to commit murder - being part of a family unit. Most likely, she thought, she would strike out in anger at a small child, felling them in one blow. But children over the age of eight, she surmised, would probably take two blows to kill. The reality of socialising with anyone, no matter how close, she said, left her feeling fatigued. — Andrew Wilson

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm not big on commissions. — Leon Panetta

seen this look on his face before, and I knew exactly what "some time" meant: hours and hours. "Then I'll go find the house by myself," I said. "Not alone, you aren't. You promised." "Then I'll find a person who — Ransom Riggs

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem. — Eric Allman

She wanted to be her, or be with her, or destroy her. — Rachel B. Glaser

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things — Ernest Hemingway,

What the hell is that?" I asked. "I mean, what are you supposed to be dressed like?" "I'm a sexy carrot." I looked at Dad and shook my head slowly. He wouldn't meet my eyes. — Joanna Wylde

You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties. — Lois Greiman

Arthur Schopenhauer: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident — Anonymous