Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Saunders

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

Jenna Fischer

It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.

Jefferson Davis

I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ - radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ - what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.

Jeff Merkley

We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator [Berny] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

Jeff Ross

South Park called...they want their everything back.

Jean Pigozzi

If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I note that many British MEPs belonging to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have used all their time in Parliament to work against the institution of which they are members. I would not presume to advise them on what they should or should not do. However, since the UK could not leave the EU fast enough as far as they were concerned, I can imagine that they will not stay any longer than they have to.

Jim Hightower

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

Jim Hightower

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Jerry Rubin

Our parents are our first oppressors.

Jerome Corsi

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Jenny Slate

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

Jeffrey Kluger

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

Jeffrey Eugenides

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Jeffrey Eugenides

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

Jeffrey Eugenides

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

Jim Gaffigan

I come from a very big family... nine parents.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

If Party of Five hadnt done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if Time of Your Life doesnt do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.

Jennifer Lawrence

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

Jennifer Lopez

Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you can be so that they turn out well. And that requires that you be a really great, evolved, aware person in every moment. Which is pretty awesome. But it's also putting tremendous pressure on yourself--which is why women feel so guilty!

Jeffrey Rosen

I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.

Jeffrey Rosen

Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers. He was also a Southern Democrat, you know, at a time when both parties were supportive of segregation.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if you go to a Tupperware party for a haircut.

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if the highlight of your parties is when you flip out your false teeth.

Jeff Foxworthy

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.

Jean Kerr

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

James Carville

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

James Carville

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

James Cameron

Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.

James Cameron

When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.