17th Century England Quotes

#1. She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did not often coincide where wealth and power were.

Anne Leonard

#2. Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

Jeanine Basinger

#3. I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

Greg Cipes

#4. If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.
(Voltaire)

Elizabeth Kales

#5. We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Bill Moyers

#6. The Devil always takes back his own.

Andrea Zuvich

#7. Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Russell Brand

#8. The only thing I regret is that it ever ended. And I'm the one who's jealous. Insanely so.

K.A. Tucker

#9. I reach forward for him, expecting to feel the hardness of his chest or at the very least one of his arms coming to halt my progress, but there is nothing. I expand my reach a little and then, feeling slightly spooked, I listen ... Nothing. No breathing, no footsteps; nothing.

Felicity Brandon

#10. After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

Bernie Sanders

#11. There is nothing little," she said with great dignity, "about my husband." Sarek did not at first understand the amused ripple that went through the crowd of reporters standing around. Certainly he was tall by Earth standards. He had to have it explained to him,

Diane Duane

#12. How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.

Marvin J. Ashton

#13. I was tired. Tired of men, tired of moving, tired of being scared, tired of being confused. But who was I kissing? I'm not one to sit quietly, anywhere.

Deborah Rodriguez

#14. Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Oliver Sacks

#15. I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

Joanna Newsom

#16. Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.

David Letterman