H. L. Mencken Quotes
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
H. L. Mencken
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
Barton Gellman
We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
Frances McDormand
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
Irina Shayk
ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
Jack Keane
Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
Gavin Hood
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
P. J. O'Rourke
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
Sam Phillips
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
Padma Lakshmi
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
Talcott Parsons
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
Ian Fleming
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
Halle Berry
We should all love animals.
Karl Pilkington
Sometimes I freeze...until the light comesSometimes I fly...into the nightSometimes I fight...against the darknessSometimes I'm wrong...sometimes I'm right - Freeze (Part IV of 'Fear') (2002)
Neil Peart
Rush
Only once did I make Shireen sit down with me for a formal interview. She talked about the need to rebuild what she called "the culture of resistance" that she remembered experiencing during the Second Intifada, but which had since evaporated, replaced by a dull consumerist individualism, by "this illusion that if I forget about Palestine, build a career, take a loan, buy a car, build a house, watch Arab Idol on TV, it's all be okay; that if they're not raiding *your* house, you're okay." In a culture constructed around a shared goal of liberation, she said, "my house is your house and your son is my son and if they kill me today they will kill you tomorrow.
Ben Ehrenreich
I was pretty sheltered growing up. I just started getting into heavier music with the Tooth & Nail/Solid State era, which really kind of brought this whole thing to life for me, so I am really thankful for that label.
Matty Mullins
If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.
Brock Lesnar
Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.
Mark Spitz
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
H. L. Mencken
