Basis For Null Quotes

#1. Every Friday is black where I work.

The Covert Comic

#2. I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Seamus Heaney

#3. True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. I have always hated the cinema.

Fernando Arrabal

#5. Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

Al Gore

#6. In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

Joan Didion

#7. I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

Ani DiFranco

#8. There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

Peter Drucker

#9. Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#10. My first term I sang Al Green ... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy .

Barack Obama

#11. We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.

Cal Thomas

#12. Songs are all but a branch of the yearning for union; branch and root are never comparable.

Close your lips, and open the window of the heart; by that way be conversant with the spirits.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#13. I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Antony Gormley

#14. It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

Wangari Maathai

#15. Why worry about things you have no control over?

John Russell

#16. We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Michael Scheuer