Basie Straight Quotes

#1. The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.

Michael Moore

#2. About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

Simon Amstell

#3. My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.

Azzedine Alaia

#4. Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Winston Churchill

#5. It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Gertrude Atherton

#6. The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

H.L. Mencken

#7. It really doesn't pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it's unlikely they will delight you now. I

Bill Bryson

#8. I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

Tallulah Bankhead