David McCullough Quotes
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.David McCullough
Quotes to Explore
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
Rachel True -
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor -
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
J. D. Vance -
I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
Rand Paul -
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia -
When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
Yami Gautam -
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
Daniel Alarcon -
I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
Rafael Nadal -
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
Victoria Justice
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My best friend is my husband.
Samantha Bond -
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
Quentin Tarantino -
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
Barton Gellman -
There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Laura Benanti -
My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Gale Gordon
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
Edward Heath -
Once a maggot, always a maggot.
Christy Romano -
My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
Jeff Baena -
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
Kurt Masur -
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
David McCullough