Valassis Direct Quotes & Sayings

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama. — John F. Kerry

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again. — Natalie Merchant

Living the life I have lived - being raised by deaf parents, assimilating to a different culture, and the challenges I have faced over time - has given me insight to the fact that each person has their own complex, intricate story, and it's rarely what I suspect it is. We must have compassion and grace for each other. We must. — Grace Gealey

To grow old is to grow remorseful. — Randy Cohen

Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of Drink
as if drink could be a problem. When people have come to call the problem of human intemperance the Problem of Drink, and to talk about curing it by attacking the drink traffic, they have reached quite a dim stage of barbarism. The thing is an inverted form of fetish worship; it is no sillier to say that a bottle is a god than to say that a bottle is a devil. The people who talk about the curse of drink will probably progress down that dark hill. In a little while we shall have them calling the practice of wife-beating the Problem of Pokers; the habit of housebreaking will be called the Problem of the Skeleton-Key Trade; and for all I know they may try to prevent forgery by shutting up all the stationers' shops by Act of Parliament. — G.K. Chesterton

We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves. — Mick Fleetwood

Was it designed and constructed by the Egyptians, Satan, gods or aliens, and for what purpose? — Robert Jean Redfern

Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The — Maya Angelou

You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future. — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon Of Tara

I see myself as a climate change skeptic and a skeptic looks at the evidence and bases conclusions on the evidence rather than on belief. To hold the view that this is not an issue that you need to do something about, to hold the view that it's all a furphy takes belief. — Ross Garnaut

Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed — Steve Jobs

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do. — Elton John

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians. — Boots Riley

When they come... they come at what you love. — Mario Puzo