Carolingian Dynasty Quotes

#1. Pippin was crowned the first king of the Carolingian dynasty in the city of Soissons, in a brand-new sacred ceremony that involved anointing with holy oil in the manner of an Old Testament theocratic king.*

Susan Wise Bauer

#2. I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

Dean Kamen

#3. Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

Benjamin Cardozo

#4. To se someone really getting to know who they are is a beautiful, beautiful, thing.

Nancy Jo Sales

#5. Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

Eli Broad

#7. Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'

Conan O'Brien

#8. There was one female role, which was Emily. When I did the audition, I flubbed up. It was my first audition back from Christmas break, and I flubbed up and was devastated. In the audition room, they were like, "Oh, you did great!," but you never really know. So, I left the audition in tears.

Tinsel Korey

#9. AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.

Napoleon Hill

#10. Heaven is a house with porch lights.

Ray Bradbury

#11. Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted.

Jackie Collins

#12. I rubbed at my temple, where the zit was gone. It still hurt a little , though, deep under the skin. I hate those zits that burrow underground. You think they've vanished, but no, they just barricade themselves right next to the bone and hurt.

Lili St. Crow

#13. I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and I can't live with everything I've had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.

Andie MacDowell

#14. A seeker is an 'ultra-stable' person with a 'quasi-stable mind'..
Quasi, as for his salvation, he has to dive right into the unstable..
That needs 'excessive stability' flexible enough to experience instability'..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#15. Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

Samuel Beckett

#16. The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Andy Stern