White House Corespondents Dinner Quotes & Sayings

I'm also hard at work on plans for the Obama Library. And some have suggested that we put it in my birthplace, but I'd rather keep it in the United States.
Did anybody not see that joke coming? Show of hands. — Barack Obama

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game. — Michael Owen

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Worry is usually interest paid on a debt that never comes due. — Tim Dorsey

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers. — John Ruskin

Just ... tell me I'm not crazy," he whispered. "That this ... isn't as insane as I think it is"
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"I don't know ... Maybe we're both a little crazy."
"I can live with that. — Julie Kagawa

Since he'd killed Newt, he hadn't thought once about what he had set out to do. Free of WICKED, finally, and here he was voluntarily going back.
He didn't care anymore. Whatever happened, happened. He knew that for the rest of his life he'd be haunted by what he'd seen. Chuck gasping for air while he bled to death, and now Newt screaming at him with raw, terrifying madness. And that last moment of sanity, eyes begging for mercy.
Thomas closed his own, and the images were still there. It took a long time for him to fall asleep. — James Dashner

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life. — Anne Michaels

As a rule, any loan that had been turned into an acronym or abbreviation could more clearly be called a "subprime loan," but the bond market didn't want to be clear. — Michael Lewis

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing. — Mohsin Hamid

Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us? — Alain De Botton

If ever a fool utters all kinds of insults against you,
The best bet is to not respond at all. — Miguel El Portugues

All my life, I've been trying to adhere to the surface of your city... — Bhanu Kapil

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central. — Madeleine Albright

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Thus the essence of freedom of opinion is not in mere toleration as such, but in the debate which toleration provides: it is not in the venting of opinion, but in the confrontation of opinion. — Walter Lippmann