Akeelah Anderson Quotes

#1. Isn't it terrifying how instinctively the arm settles into the aiming of a gun? You've even put your finger on the lever marked Rock'n'roll, and that means you're 1% of the way along the road towards putting me down, shooter. The other 99% is just pulling the trigger.

Mark Crutchfield

#2. The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

Sophie Swetchine

#3. Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally ... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on ...

Laura Nyro

#4. Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Billy Sunday

#5. Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

Annette Crosbie

#6. I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

David Adams Richards

#7. You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

Cat Deeley

#8. It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau

Brian P. Moran

#9. Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

Emo Philips

#10. And what have I done?"
What? WHAT? ... You've stolen them."
With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was.
The boys.
The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

William Goldman

#11. We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that.

Sarah Palin

#12. I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

Kamala Harris