Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roseanne Barr

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

David Hockney

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Brendan Fehr

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Daniel Handler

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Bridget Moynahan

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

Andre Maurois

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Daphne Gottlieb

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

Cornel Wilde

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.