Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes
In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.
Quotes to Explore
-
Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
-
We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
-
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
-
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
-
I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
-
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
-
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
-
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
-
I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
-
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
-
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
-
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
-
During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
-
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
-
Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
-
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
-
I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
-
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
-
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
-
I wasn't the most confident of cooks, but I just persevered, and I wanted to learn, and I wanted to be a sponge, and I wanted to be better than the next person, and I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I just kept pushing, and it took me a long time actually to be confident in my technique and my ability as a cook.
-
I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.
-
I stand, said Mr. Fox, upon this great principle. I say that the people of England have a right to control the executive power, by the interference of their representatives in this House of parliament. The right honourable gentleman William Pitt maintains the contrary. He is the cause of our political enmity.
-
As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.
-
In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.
