Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornelia Otis Skinner

the reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping ...

Cornel West

The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.

Cornel West

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

Common

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party...

Clifford Geertz

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

Dave Attell

There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.

Davy Crockett

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Davy Crockett

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

Davy Crockett

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

David Lloyd George

[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.

David Lloyd George

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

David Harsanyi

Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.

David Hare

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

Curt Schilling

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

Daniel Tosh

Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party.

Dana Stabenow

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

Dane Cook

When you don't have love, it is like there's a party going on and everybody was invited except for you ... and you just happen to walk by that house in the rain

David Cameron

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

David Cameron

I think in any organisation it's right to set out what you stand for, what you're fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody - not just the rich

David Byrne

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

Dave Haywood

I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!

Darrell Hammond

I belong to the Democratic Party.

David Levithan

That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything. A piece of jewelry made by hand: something. A dollar: anything. A sand dollar: something. A gift certificate: anything. An IOU for two hours of starwatching: something. A drunk kiss at a party: anything. A sober kiss alone in a park: something.

David Levithan

When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to be, and so many friends and strangers couldn't help seeing who he didn't want to be anymore, Dawn only saw him. Call it a blur if you want, but Dawn didn't see a blur. She saw a very distinct, very clear person.

David Letterman

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

David Letterman

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

David Letterman

As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body.

David Letterman

Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.

David Letterman

Everybody is wondering what Paris Hilton will be doing next, and hell, I'm wondering what she did before.

David Letterman

Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.

David Blunkett

It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off

David Belle

Train not to get something right, train so that you can never get it wrong

Deion Sanders

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.