Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Schroeder

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

E. B. White

For parties and big gatherings, this is what we sell.

Matt Hasselbeck

For our team, it was we should really just go out and play to make our parents proud, so to speak.

Jack Osbourne

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

Isak Dinesen

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

Ishmael Reed

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

Irvine Welsh

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Iris Murdoch

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Ina Garten

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

Ina Garten

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

Ida B. Wells

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Hunter Parrish

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

Gloria Steinem

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Gloria Steinem

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

My parents never really lecture me.

Harry Reid

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.

Harry Reid

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. Im ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

Harry Reid

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

Harry S Truman

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

Harry S Truman

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

Harry S Truman

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

Harry S Truman

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

J. K. Rowling

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

J. K. Rowling

But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that. So, yeah, I'll put it out there, and if everyone says, 'Well, that's shockingly bad – back to wizards with you', then obviously I won't be throwing a party. But I will live. I will live.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.

J. K. Rowling

I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?

Nathan East

In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is that it's the furthest thing from the party. There's the alcoholism and drug abuse that come because you're looking for that elusive 'thing,' and you don't know what it is or where it is. But you've got the money and the connections, and the choices are not always the healthiest.

Natalia Vodianova

When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Nancy Kerrigan

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

Nancy Mitford

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Nancy Mitford

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

Nancy Pearcey

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.