Quotes About Quote

My admiration stranger within our gates, who hesitates not to speak the truth.

To suggest the contrary was to infuriate her.

I'm not sure that there's anything more horrible than staying in a furnished room in Paris, especially

The constant winds of petty appetite dissipate the power of response.

Taisez-vous, sotte et impertinente créature ; vos phrases de roman nous ennuient.

can the title of Donna Bustamente make me any happier?" "It would put you out of reach of the insolent disdain of society." "Society!" said Juliette; "you mean your friends. What is society? I have never known. I have passed through life and made the tour of the globe, but have never been able to discover what you call society.

The bible is literature, not dogma.

America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

You were torturing a cat, she says. With a freaking prod. A prod I built myself in metal shop, he says. But of course you never mention that.

He seems to have a passable knowledge of how to pretend to churn butter.

all a story is: a limited set of elements that we

We might think of structure as simply: an organizational scheme that allows the story to answer a question it has caused its reader to ask.

In Far East Distant Outer Horner, a lush verdant zone where cows' heads grew out of the earth shouting sarcastic things at anyone that passed, which, though lush and verdant, was unpopulated because the cows sarcasm was so withering.

or said some racist thing out loud at church...

Tennyson shall have his day, and Donne his eclipse.

When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous... ("A Wine of Wizardry")

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror...so today I vetoed it

I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

Delivering the speech was a surreal experience. The delegates sat silent, almost frozen in place. It was like speaking to a wax museum.

Eight years was awesome, and I was famous and I was powerful.

I was concerned about the legality of the program, and so I asked lawyers—of which you got plenty of them in Washington—to determine whether or not I could do this legally. And they came back and said yes.

constituents. Many of them greeted their Congressman

He talked about the struggling economy, rising inflation, and declining American power abroad.