Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

Patti Smith

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Pat Robertson

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.

Pat Robertson

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

Pat Robertson

I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states...I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party...I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts...They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.

P. Chidambaram

I know my limitations. I live and work according to my limitations. And my party only two weeks ago has clearly declared that the leader of the party after Ms Sonia Gandhi will be Mr Rahul Gandhi. And all of us, including me, have expressed our solid support to Mr Rahul Gandhi.

P. Chidambaram

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

P. J. O'Rourke

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

Martin Frost

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

Martin Gore

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

Martin Heinrich

I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.

Martin Heinrich

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.

Mark McKinnon

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

Mario Monti

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

Nikki Cox

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

Nikki Haley

Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business,

Nikki Haley

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

Nicole Polizzi

I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.

Nicole Krauss

If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.

Nicole Krauss

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

Nicole Richie

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.

Nick Minchin

If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position

Nick Minchin

I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.

Nick Hornby

And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to go home. I feel flat and there doesn't seem to be anything to look forward to, so I'd rather call it a day.

Mary Lou Williams

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

Mark Twain

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

Mark Twain

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Mark Twain

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

Mark Twain

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Marian Keyes

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

Nicholas Stern

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Nicholas Stoller

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.