Voaom Quotes & Sayings

Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others. — Marc Hauser

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. — Junot Diaz

I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display. — Yohji Yamamoto

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye. — Joan Jett

Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one's character through the having and handling of every given day. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I asked nothing better of life. I still ask nothing better of life. Strange to say - for surely it is strange not to have increased one's claims, during the passage from youth to maturity? - these very things, just sun on my face, the feel of spring round the corner, and nobody anywhere in sight except a dog, are still enough to fill me with utter happiness. How convenient. And how cheap. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution. — Rush Limbaugh

The Pope is not putting himself out on a limb, he's putting himself up on the Cross, and that's what he's called to do. — Theodore Edgar McCarrick

Men go to the ballpark with an assumed knowledge and interest, whereas women need to constantly demonstrate how much they know and care. — Stacey May Fowles

When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas. — Barack Obama

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions. — Bert Lahr

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed. — Hillary Clinton

My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy. — Willie Herenton

Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is. — Mario Batali