707 Quotes

#1. If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

Robert Kuttner

#2. It's lunacy out there. Christmas makes people insane. And that bit about goodwill toward men? It sure as hell doesn't apply to retail.

J.D. Robb

#3. I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.

Birdy

#4. In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

Eric Kripke

#5. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

#6. I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I've received both very brief and obscene messages, and very long and literate messages that tell me a vote for Crash was vote for homophobia.

Roger Ebert

#7. The voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

Genesis P-Orridge

#8. O be not anxious, comrades, fear ye not! The siuation here hath been controll'd. All merry 'tis in the detention block! ...
That conversation did my spirits bore! Now Luke, prepare thyself for company.

Ian Doescher

#9. The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

George F. Will

#10. I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

Sean Penn

#11. Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.

Ashraf Ghani

#12. Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Marilu Henner

#13. There's no such thing as 'not enough time' out here in the woods. I don't even have a watch. Time is my own, categorised as nothing more than 'morning, afternoon, evening and night'.

Fennel Hudson

#14. They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game

R.D. Laing

#15. I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

Kathy Griffin

#16. Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

Dorothea Lange