Wcau Channel Quotes & Sayings

Photographers are always imposing — Susan Sontag

What the administration was now bargaining and trading with was land grants, especially to the railroad companies, something Lincoln understood well. He and his administration were using lands taken from the Indians to advance the fortunes of a few wealthy groups in order to finance the North's war costs. — Keith R. Baker

His touch was simple, but specific, meant to show me he could be like a lover, gentle, intimate, but also that he was a man unaccustomed to hearing the word no. Yes. I understood. He was a man, and I? I was nothing but a girl, not even a woman. I was meant to fall at his feet and worship at the altar of his masculinity, grateful that he'd deigned to acknowledge me. All this, from a simple touch. — C.J. Roberts

Rule three, never underestimate nosy neighbors. Mrs. Rupp called and wanted to know why you were standing in the alley, looking into her windows, and she was wondering if she should call the police. I explained it was most likely *my* windows you were looking in and reminded her that *I* was the police, so she needn't bother with another phone call. — Janet Evanovich

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Dreams can change, if we all stuck with our first dreams there would be a lot of cowboys and princesses running around. — Stephen Colbert

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security. — Samantha Power

One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: 'Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once.' But that bid for glory was a failure. Most of the boys could say that, and so that cheapened the distinction too much." ~From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Scene where the neighbor boys were lamenting over Tom's apparent drowning. — Mark Twain

Drama often obscures the real issues — Jenny Holzer

It's in those private times that we are refreshed, strengthened, and rejuvenated. It's then we can see our lives from God's perspective and discover what is really important. That's where we understand who it is we belong to and believe in. — Stormie O'martian

I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction. — Arthur Ganson

History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers. — J. Stalin