Republicans Shut Down Quotes & Sayings

My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot. — Laura Benanti

Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states. — Jay Leno

Believe me, although I really like the show, the reality of Philly Homicide is nothing like CBS's 'Cold Case.' — Richard Montanari

All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy. And the man of maxims is the popular representative of the minds that are guided in their moral judgment solely by general rules, thinking that these will lead them to justice by a ready-made patent method, without the trouble of exerting patience, discrimination, impartiality, without any care to assure themselves whether they have the insight that comes from a hardly-earned estimate of temptation, or from a life vivid and intense enough to have created a wide fellow-feeling with all that is human. — George Eliot

So, I'm no more then a stolen relic, locked up, here, until you might have use of me?! — Loki Laufeyson

The days of infinity are endless. Its hours cannot be counted or found on a clock. There is no north, south, east, or west. These are just concepts. Infinity is forever, everywhere all at once. And that's all there is. — Frederick Lenz

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people. — David Scott

temperature of true rage is absolute zero, and — Rick Yancey

It is cold down in Washington, D.C. They had to use an ice scraper on John Boehner's face to get the tears off, it was so cold. — David Letterman

What, then, is good preaching? Let me pull all these ideas together into a single description. It is "proclaim[ing]. . . . the testimony of God" (1 Corinthians 2:1) - preaching biblically, engaging with the authoritative text. This means preaching the Word and not your opinion. — Timothy Keller

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted. — Timothy F. Cahill

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading. — Rikki Ducornet

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes. — Virginia Woolf

Lord Sanquire was hanged in the days of James I. for the revengeful murder of an "Alsatian " master named Turner, who had accidentally put out his eye. — Egerton Castle

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines. — Kevin O'Leary