Showd Quotes & Sayings

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility. — Paula Poundstone

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. — Norman Cousins

A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them. — George Eliot

Merger Evers/John F. Kennedy/Malcolm X/Martin Luther King/Robert Kennedy/Che Guevara/Patrice Lamumba/George Jackson/Cynthia Wesley/Addie Mae Collins/Denise McNair/Carole Robertson/Viola Liuzzo
It was a decade marked by death. Violent and inevitable. Funerals became engraved on the brain, intensifying the ephemeral nature of life. For many in the South it was a decade reminiscent of earlier times, when oak trees sighed over their burdens in the wind; Spanish moss draggled blood to the ground; amen corners creaked with grief; and the thrill of being able, once again, to endure unendurable loss produced so profound an ecstasy in mourners that they strutted, without noticing their feet, along the thin backs of benches: their piercing shouts of anguish and joy never interrupted by an inglorious fall. They shared rituals for the dead to be remembered. — Alice Walker

I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done. — Riccardo Muti

Fear is not at the heart of Christianity nor of our nation. The very essence of Christian faith lies in forgiveness. Christians believe that Jesus died so we may live. He took upon himself our sins so that we may be forgiven and thereby gave us a model of forgiveness for others. This is a cycle that allows civility and progress in the face of man's faults and imperfectability. — Cory Bernardi

So I can say I used to have a waist. — Katie McGrath

You either trust me or you don't. I've never let you down, and I won't walk away unless you make me. Period. Now, unless you have a real emergency, I'd like to get back to my vacation. And my corpse, thanks. — Jeaniene Frost

The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know? — Britt Daniel

Carol turned around quickly as if stifling an urge to lunge at Max. He turned back to Max, straining to appear genial. "Okay," he said, "but will you come over here and put your head in my mouth again?"
Max continued to back up, "No, Carol. I don't want to right now. — Dave Eggers

You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read. — Sarah Payne Stuart

Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same. — Marty Rubin

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need. — Karen Finerman

A new day brings us a tomorrow. — Shing02