James P. Hogan Quotes
The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.
James P. Hogan
Quotes to Explore
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand
We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
Zara Larsson
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
Queen Latifah
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
Ralph Fiennes
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Olivia Wilde
My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
Pamela Adlon
You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
Brown Campbell
I don't have time to be depressed.
Pat Nixon
I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
Kate Reardon
I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
Kate Walsh
When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
Naeem Khan
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot
You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
Ioan Gruffudd
Boxing is what pays my bills.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.
Charlotte Ross
If that took place, we understand the penalties. We understand somebody being taken out of the game. Sean is so valuable to us. I had a long talk with him afterward, and he understands that. He's all football. He wants to play. He's one of our leaders. He's had an outstanding year. He's very valuable to us. We can't afford to lose somebody like that.
Joe Gibbs
Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
Lois Wyse
I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
Maisie Williams
