Unbuilding Quotes & Sayings

Two Soviets ... were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering." — Ronald Reagan

The blame lies with our brains. While they are really good at building circuits, they are awful at unbuilding them. — Daniel Coyle

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy. — Hector Berlioz

Fiona! How ya doin!:} For My longtime friend of more then 20 years Fiona York!:} — Mike Mercer

I'm not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me. — Adam Brown

I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different. — Larry The Cable Guy

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. — Norman Douglas

America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden. — Joe Bastianich

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin. — Aasif Mandvi

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves. — Gustave Flaubert

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. — Vladimir Putin

I have to step out for a second. Don't do anything funny while I'm gone. — Stephenie Meyer

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it. — Edmund Morgan

When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren't necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there. — Miranda July