Scott McClellan Quotes

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

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• When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • New York
  • Hug

• The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Time
  • Science
  • Purpose

• Pop ya kickstand little mama I'm the Nickster. I'll pop you then I'll pop your little sister.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Sister
  • Littles
  • Ass

• Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Knowledge
  • Progress
  • Human

• In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

  

  Cory Booker
  • American
  • America
  • History

• When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

  

  Cory Booker
  • People
  • Family
  • Way

• What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Power
  • Law
  • Care

• Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Life
  • World
  • War

• I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Kids
  • High
  • Mother`s

• Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Love
  • Spirit

• Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

  

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • Writers
  • Foods
  • Rice Krispies

• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Life
  • Music
  • Children

• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • School
  • College

• I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Blokes
  • Chalk

• If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Book

• At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Die
  • Friendship
  • Run

• As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Administration
  • White House
  • Secretary