Surcharged Def Quotes & Sayings

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America? — Barack Obama

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible. — Herbert V. Prochnow

He's like a hero come back from the
war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.
Wherever he sits himself the chair collapses; whatever door he
enters the room is empty: whatever he puts in his mouth leaves a
bad taste. Everything is just the same as it was before; the
elements are unchanged, the dream is no different than the reality.
Only, between the time he went to sleep and the time he woke up,
his body was stolen. — Henry Miller

The first look was the deepest, watching her, with all her tricks and movements, fearfully, from across the room and feeling that hit of longing, and thinking she was out of my league. — Anonymous

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. — Scott Caan

Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty. — J.G. Ballard

Why is it that we all say we hate our hypocritical politicians being controlled by special interests groups, and every election...we vote them in again. — Colleen Hitchcock

Your dreams may seem impossible to someone with insomnia. — Junnita Jackson

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace. — George W. Bush

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. — Sean Bean