Charlie Pierce Quotes
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
Charlie Pierce
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
Salma Hayek
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt
There's no regrets for me.
Adam Lambert
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
Bear Bryant
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys
One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Wade Boggs
I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
Oswald Spengler
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
Jon Scieszka
I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that.
Johnny Depp
People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.
Joe Williams
Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
Yelawolf
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
D. H. Lawrence
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window and start rounding folks up.
Charlie Pierce