Briefing Room Quotes

#1. As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Scott McClellan

#2. The thing that I try to remember is that in the briefing room it's not a debate. I'm not supposed to go in there and win a debate with the press corps. If that's what I try to do, then I'm going to lose.

Josh Earnest

#3. I slowly breathe in and out,and i find myself relaxing more and more with each breath

Louise Hay

#4. When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Andrew Motion

#5. When history calls, history calls,

Olympia Snowe

#6. I hate all children of precocious talent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. When you get to be older, and the concerns of the day have all been attended to, and you turn to the inner life - well, if you don't know where it is or what it is, you'll be sorry.

Joseph Campbell

#8. Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

David Sedaris

#9. For Burnley to win they are going to have to score.

Chris Kamara

#10. Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Norman Cousins

#11. In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#12. Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn't have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That's why I decided to start Amber House Books.

Teresa Medeiros

#13. Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.

Richard Branson

#14. I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

Kathleen Turner