Scaifes Quotes & Sayings

The function of writing is to explode one's subject - transform it into something else. (Writing is a series of transformations). — Susan Sontag

America's a very traumatized society. — Alanis Morissette

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. — Solomon Burke

The minds of the preoccupied, as if harnessed in a yoke, cannot turn round and look behind them. So their lives vanish into an abyss; and just as it is no use pouring any amount of liquid into a container without a bottom to catch and hold it, so it does not matter how much time we are given if there is nowhere for it to settle; it escapes through the cracks and holes of the mind. — Seneca.

In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities. — Daniel Yergin

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy. — Marilyn Monroe

I love 'Breaking Bad.' I think that's my favorite show. — Lyndsy Fonseca

I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all ... if we did pass it, all of a sudden, what do you have? You have the whole tax system run by a little old lady on a home computer, doing the work of all these thousands of bureaucrats and accountants. Passing that would be amazing, wouldn't it? — Clint Eastwood

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. — Rand Paul