Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Baker

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

Clement Freud

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Cleveland Amory

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Daphne du Maurier

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

Dan Rather

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Dan Rather

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Dan Rather

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

Dan Quayle

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Dan Quayle

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

Dan Quayle

I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.

Dan Quayle

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

Dan Quayle

We lead in exporting jobs.

Dan Quayle

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

Dan Quayle

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

Dan Quayle

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Dan Quayle

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Dan Quayle

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Dan Quayle

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

Dan Quayle

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

Dan Quayle

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

Dan Quayle

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Dan Quayle

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

Dan Quayle

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Dan Quayle

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Dan Quayle

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Dan Quayle

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Dan Quayle

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Dan Quayle

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Dan Quayle

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.