Tristram Shapeero Quotes & Sayings

There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing. — Joe Biden

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth. — Murray Walker

If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that wring groans and tears and curses, know that they come from a man with his back up, a man whose only defenses left are his words and his words are always stronger than the lying, crushing weight of the world, stronger than all the racks and wheels which the cowardly invent to crush out the miracle of personality. If any man ever dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world. — Henry Miller

There are rare and precious moments, when one is a stranger in a room, that one can examine its inhabitants with little or no prejudice. Without knowing so much as their names, it is possible to form an assessment based purely upon observation and instinct. — Alan Bradley

What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything. — Siouxsie Sioux

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees. — Tony McCoy

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it. — Mao Zedong

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground. — Dave Gibbons

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution. — Dan Quayle

There was something about having a plan for dinner, a recipe in hand, that made her feel much less hostile about food. — Jennifer Crusie

...he was a lonely straight male, and a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies:
To feel as if he couldn't survive without a woman made a man feel weak;
And yet, without a woman in his life, a man lost the sense of agency and difference that, for better or worse, was the foundation of his manhood. — Jonathan Franzen

Instead, as a consequence of racial gerrymandering, "elections nationwide have become more or less permanently structured to discourage politically adventuresome African American candidates who aspire to win political office in majority-white settings. — Jason L. Riley

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place. — Meg Rosoff

From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back. — John Madden

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. — Steve Buscemi