Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Reston

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Jeff Gannon

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

Maurice Hinchey

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

Maurice Hinchey

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Frank Rich

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

Walter Winchell

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

Jerry Pournelle

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

Jim McKay

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

Now, getting back to how much money you've raised so far for your campaign, approximately $6.7 million. Where is the money coming from?

Allan Carr

We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle.

Anna Quindlen

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Grantland Rice

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

George Clooney

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

Ziggy Marley

There's more to life than physical and materia.

Paul Begala

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.

Paul Begala

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

Paul Begala

I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.

Paul Begala

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.

Paul Begala

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Maria Shriver

We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

Susan Estrich

Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.

Sun Ra

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Sun Ra

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Shana Alexander

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Shana Alexander

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Shana Alexander

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

Russell Baker

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Jim McKay

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

Barbara Walters

The Buddhists feel that you are recreated as some thing, as an insect, or an animal, or a person, but that you're not in some beautiful shiny place.