Stopgap Measure Quotes & Sayings

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. — Anne Moody

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair ... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. — Chuck Schumer

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball. — Larry Sanders

I prefer the word thriver, because I'm not just surviving, I'm thriving, — Laurell K. Hamilton

Stories are a communal currency of humanity. — Tahir Shah

Thankfulness is the tune of angels. — Edmund Spenser

There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large. — Walter Moers

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. — Harvey Fierstein

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see ... [it] becomes unnecessary. — Steve Hagen

If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat. — Austin O'Malley

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing. — Taraka Larson