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
'You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because gentlemen, this is my last press conference.' (November 7, 1962)
View quotes by Richard Nixon
A clockwork orange (title of novel 1962)
View quotes by Anthony Burgess
The postman always rings twice (title of novel)
View quotes by James M Cain
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers.(The Living Novel)
View quotes by V S Pritchett
The bonfire of the vanities. (Title of novel, 1987)
View quotes by Tom Wolfe
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
View quotes by Henry James
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham
When an Italian says it's pasta I check under the sauce to make sure. They are innovators of the smokescreen.
View quotes by Sir Alex Ferguson
And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.
View quotes by Dan Maskell
Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer.
View quotes by Mike Ingham
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
View quotes by Joseph Addison
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
View quotes by Fred Allen
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
View quotes by Honore De Balzac
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
View quotes by Isaac Singer
Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.
View quotes by E M Forster
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
View quotes by Jim Rohn
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
View quotes by Harold Geneen
Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.
View quotes by Harold McMillan
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
View quotes by Norman Mailer
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
View quotes by Norman Mailer
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
View quotes by Andre Maurois
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
View quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
View quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Some books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
View quotes by David Baddiel
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