Ponekad Tekst Quotes & Sayings

The argument is that Black History Month dwells too much on the downside of white America's relationship to its brothers of African heritage, slavery and torture and the like, and ignores the work of all the good white folk through the years who were nice to black people (did you know it was a white teacher who first suggested George Washington Carver study horticulture?). — Matt Taibbi

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her. — Martha Quinn

Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father just managed to stop him. Though incoherent with fear, the boy managed to inform us that his little brother had just drowned in the horse trough. My father grabbed the boy and we went racing up to the farmhouse, where the anguished mother, the drowned child in her arms, was sobbing, crying out in German, and rocking in a rocking chair. Fortunately the boy was not quite dead. My father managed to get him away from his mother long enough to stretch him out on the porch and squeeze the water out of him. In a while the boy began to belch dirty fluids and then to breathe again. The crisis past, we went on home. The graceful German mother brought my father jars of her best sauerkraut for many, many years. — Larry McMurtry

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France ... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France. — Joan Of Arc

Man cannot survive by bread and water alone, but bread and water and hate? — Glen David Gold

Mind games to me are overrated. — Scott Brooks

My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven. — Alexandre Dumas

Change has no constituency. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people. — Ja'far Al-Sadiq

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important. — Gary David Goldberg

I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of animation. And I couldn't believe all the artwork the guys had done to find this universal empathy to Dumbo. There was one drawing where they used his ears as a sign: "Eat at Joes!" These guys were continually searching and digging to see what that is. — Peter Sohn

Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama's deficit speech. — Jay Leno

Footnote:
"With all due respect" is grown-up talk for "I think you're stupid. — Dan Gutman

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all. — Armand Assante

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems. — Corin Nemec