Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
View quotes by George W Bush
Dirt is only matter out of place; and what is a blot on the escutcheon of the Common Law may be a jewel in the crown of the Social Republic
View quotes by John Chipman Gray
I saw the spiders marching through the air,
Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day
In latter August when the hay
Came creaking to the barn.
View quotes by Robert Lowell
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends what you put into it.
View quotes by Tom Lehrer
In this life there's nothing new in dying, But nor of course is living any newer
View quotes by Sergei Yesenin
The thinking man's crumpet (description of Joan Bakewell)
View quotes by Frank Muir
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
View quotes by Bertrand Russell
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellry.
(At a Royal Variety Performance)
View quotes by John Lennon
Farewell, Love, and all they laws forever.
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more. (Farewell, Love, 1557)
View quotes by Sir Thomas Wyatt
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
View quotes by Ansel Adams
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
View quotes by Richard Bach
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
View quotes by Lily Tomlin
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
View quotes by Lao Tzu
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
View quotes by Sir Walter Scott
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
View quotes by Sophocles
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
View quotes by Jonathan Swift
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak
Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
View quotes by J B Priestley
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
View quotes by Thomas Merton
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