Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lennon

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

John le Carre

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

John Banville

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

Julie Bishop

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

Julie Burchill

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Julie Andrews

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

Joseph Lowery

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

Joseph Lancaster

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

Katharine Whitehorn

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Katharine Hepburn

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

Justin Hartley

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

Judy Chicago

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

Kate Morton

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

Kate Moss

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

Leona Lewis

I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

Lawrence Wilkerson

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Lauren Bacall

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

John Key

We also need to remember the enduring principles on which the National Party is based – individual responsibility, support for families and communities, and a belief that the State can't and shouldn't do everything.

John Kasich

The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.

John Kasich

I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.

John Kasich

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

John Kasich

I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.

John Kasich

The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.

John Keats

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

Karen Finney

One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place. And I know that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me.

Karen Hughes

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

Joy Behar

Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.

Joyce Carol Oates

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Justin Bieber

I'm not sure about the parties. But whatever they have in Korea, that's bad.

Julianne Hough

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

Juan Cole

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.