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- You're a parasite for sore eyes.
- actor Gregory Ratoff
- I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.
- Julian Schnabel
- I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.
- Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), speechwriter for the Reagan administration
- Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
- Orrin Hatch, Republican senator
- The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.
- Reverend Peter Marshall, on being elected Chaplain of the U. S. Senate in January 1947
- [He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves... So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
- Todd Andrew Reid
- Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.
- PJ O'Rourke
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