Simplicated Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. — David Ignatius

The power of fate is a wonder; dark, terrible wonder. Neither wealth nor armies, towered walls nor ships, Black hulls lashed by the salt, can save us from that force. - Sophocles — John R. Hale

My first job as assistant director was to make sure he didn't cast the talented blond dancer who had so easily stolen my boyfriend the summer before. I accomplished this with the persistent and skilled manipulation of a grade A bitch. — Tina Fey

You have to play the logic of a character. — Emily Watson

All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace. — Billy Graham

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — James L. Petigru

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball — Martin F. Nolan

You wouldn't have to do any business with Wolfsheim." Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food. — Kanye West

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin