Vanishings David Quotes & Sayings

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years. — Barry Diller

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. — Cornelia Otis Skinner

Churchill had arrived in Persia secure in his nineteenth-century belief in England's imperial destiny; he left having learned a cold lesson. He now had no choice but to regard the status of his small island nation from a mid-twentieth-century vantage point, and it was one of declining geopolitical might. — William Manchester

I love a bit of passion. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity. — Mads Mikkelsen

In the following years, as the molecular biologists consolidated their political power, their agenda would expand and increasingly prevail; and the needs of the public would continue to be compromised. — Steven Druker

There are some things she doesn't like to think about because thinking about them takes up every part of her mind and body. — Alden Bell

One great building does not make a great city. — Thomas Heatherwick

Try not to take it personally if the mother criticizes you or tells you to stop doing something that you expected to be helpful. Just say, "Sorry," and stop doing it. Don't try to explain why you did it or express frustration with her. She is really saying that labor is so difficult right now that nothing helps. You are the safest person for her to lash out at. Later, she will probably apologize. — Penny Simkin

You are all the sun I need. — Lydia Joyce

But to the managing editor of Life, Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr., the problem centered on bias. "Of course, we did not intentionally mislead our readers," he wrote. But I do think that we ourselves were misled by our bias. Because of that bias we did not exert ourselves enough to report the side we didn't believe in. We were too ready to accept the evidence of pictures like the empty auditorium at Omaha and to ignore the later crowds. We were too eager to report the Truman "bobbles" and to pass over the things that were wrong about the Republican campaign: empty Dewey speeches, the bad Republican candidates, the dangers of Republican commitments to big business. — David McCullough

If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy. — Amanda Peet

Oh, my, you are one of the Chosen People," mocked Black-eyes.

"Of course I am," retorted Emily. — L.M. Montgomery

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky - — Emily Dickinson