Jim Cooper Quotes

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

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• This is a strange game.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Game
  • Strange

• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Gossip
  • Bears
  • Flavor

• Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Gold
  • Decisions

• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Very

• The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Know
  • Me
  • Play

• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Hit
  • Elephant
  • Bull

• If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Better
  • Yourself

• I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • City
  • Attitude

• The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Moving
  • Child
  • Forgotten

• I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Person
  • Write
  • Pencil

• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • May
  • Problem
  • Lies

• Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Light
  • Shadow

• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• That old bald cheater, Time.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Time

• Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Life

• You come out at night;That's when the energy comes.And the dark side's light,And the vampires roam.You strut your rasta wearAnd your suicide poemAnd a cross from a faithThat died before Jesus came.You're building a mystery.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Night
  • Energy
  • Light

• I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Pride

• I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Great
  • Music
  • School

• It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • History
  • Daily
  • Ethics

• All of these things mean everything to me because without that I wouldn't be standing here without arts education, and it's something that is universal -- and vaguely political, but not really.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Education
  • Mean
  • Universal

• Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

  

  Jim Cooper