Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.

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• It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Influence
  • Writers
  • Reader

• We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Business
  • Tree

• When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Children
  • Risk
  • Fate

• I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Something

• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money

• She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Children
  • School
  • She

• It's a big disappointment. They just jumped on us. Once we started to get into any type of groove offensively or defensively, it was too late.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Disappointment
  • Groove
  • Jumped

• We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.

  

  Austin Phelps
  • Reality
  • Christ
  • Necessity

• I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, "Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?" She said, "No, I hate myself now."

  

  Jack Roy
  • Love
  • She
  • Girl

• There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Disciplined

• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hero
  • Tragedy
  • Virtues

• Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Thinking
  • Imagination

• Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Courage
  • Slavery
  • Gentleman

• Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Charity

• But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Try
  • Order

• Language does not make one an elite.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Language
  • Does
  • Elite

• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Story
  • Movies

• We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

  

  Sam Endicott The Bravery
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ringtone band

• I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Letter
  • Crash
  • Belfast