Backslapping Quotes

#1. Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

Al Gore

#2. It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Robert Plant

#3. His joy was a release of Paul's conversion, not the heavy backslapping practical-joking humor of the Victorians, nor the cynical satire or the flippancy of the twenty first century mass media, just the gift of not taking himself or his adversaries too seriously.

John Charles Pollock

#4. I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

Rod Serling

#5. May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons."
I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

Charlaine Harris

#6. I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.

Robert Mondavi

#7. Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

Derek Bok

#8. First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Mikhail Tal

#9. I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

Douglas Feith

#10. I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.

John Muckler

#11. Yes, guilty.' It is better to let ten who are guilty go, than to punish one who is innocent - do you hear, do you hear this majestic voice from the last century of our glorious history?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.

Kenny Loggins

#13. Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#14. Most of us do not choose the life we live; however, our lives are a direct result of the choices we make.

Arial Burnz

#15. If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Dalai Lama

#16. I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.

Malick Sidibe

#17. Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.

Balan Gothandaraman

#18. Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret.

Karen Marie Moning