Surpasses Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies. — Hillary Clinton

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt. — John D. Caputo

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations. — Vince Staples

I've always been old at heart. — Fran Lebowitz

At that promise, and him calling me "gorgeous", an electric spasm went straight through my lower belly and he kissed me and that was it. I'm a slut. I don't know what to say, even with the emotional scene, I gave in. — Kristen Ashley

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption - the fear - that death equaled silence. — David Levithan

I have seen people rude by being over-polite. — Michel De Montaigne

It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges. — Jenny Downham

Money cannot buy life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. — David Hanson

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft. — Mickey Rooney

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face. — Gretchen Mol

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter. — Voltaire

It's great to create a story and then to submit it to your editor and see what her reaction is to it. It's great to have your editor tell what her suggestions and ideas for the story are. It's great to explain to your editor why her ideas and suggestions are bizarre and to ask her why is she trying to ruin my story. — Christopher Paul Curtis