Algonquin Round Table Quotes

#1. When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

John F. Kennedy

#2. At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.

John Leguizamo

#3. The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

Derek R. Audette

#4. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Jaimal Yogis

#5. My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

#6. Welcome to the Glade.

James Dashner

#7. Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Colin Powell

#8. I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

Ronald Reagan

#9. He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Dorothy Parker

#10. The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

Dave Grohl

#11. Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.

Kamal Ravikant

#12. We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Tracy Morgan

#13. For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase ...

William Shakespeare

#14. I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

Diane Hendricks

#15. Do as you would be done by

Jennifer Dance

#16. A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.

Michel Faber

#18. Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

Jack Lambert

#19. Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully and fearlessly, In the midst of the bodhisattvas Frankly casting aside my expedient devices, Merely preach the Unexcelled Path.

Gautama Buddha