Quoting Inside Quotes & Sayings

Senator John McCain, who spent over five years in a Vietnamese POW camp, publicly releases 1,000 pages of medical records. Now people are left with only open nagging questions: what kind of freak has 1,000 pages of medical records? — Jon Stewart

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks. — Kathleen Hanna

Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke. — Kenneth Branagh

If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me. — Ambrose

Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs
social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him
until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands. — Benjamin Netanyahu

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions. — Sakyong Mipham

That all depends on what "is" is. — William J. Clinton

The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins 'Change Your Mind — Rod Judkins

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. — Miguel De Cervantes

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency ... — Kate Christensen

And when we die,
Will we be that disappointed or sad?
If Heaven doesn't exist,
What will we have missed?
This life is the best we've ever had. — Neil Hannon