Harry S Truman Quotes

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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• ..."I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stuff
  • Laugh
  • Bottle

• We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• The chaperone's job is to make sure no one else has any fun. But nobody chaperones the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job.

  

  Jane Russell
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Chaperones

• I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Control
  • Months
  • Hackers

• We want to listen to the inspectors, we want to continue working in the framework of the United Nations.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Want
  • Working
  • United Nations

• The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Artist
  • Create
  • Politicians

• I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

  

  Plato
  • My Life
  • Prove
  • Liars

• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Standing
  • Giants
  • Shoulders

• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

  

  William Styron
  • Fun
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Learn
  • Satisfactory
  • Arithmetic

• The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Bible
  • Sin
  • Teaches

• If people don’t like you, practically nothing you do will be received well.

  

  Aubrey Daniels
  • People
  • Like
  • Received

• As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal—in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

  

  Jon Stewart
  • End
  • Administration
  • Bush

• Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Administration
  • Parliament
  • Majesty

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Kids

• There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.

  

  Javier Solana
  • European
  • Negotiations
  • Vienna

• This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Administration