Casseres Quotes

#1. I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.

Eric Kandel

#2. I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything that's written about me whether positive or negative.

Heidi Klum

#3. Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Richard Steele

#4. That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

Allan Lokos

#5. The river runs through the heart of the city, and braiding around and over and under the river, the city's rail system is a welter of tarnished silver ribbons.

Sarah Monette

#6. My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

Benjamin De Casseres

#7. Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.

Benjamin De Casseres

#8. I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

Catherine McCormack

#9. Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Benjamin De Casseres

#10. New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

Ellie Kemper

#11. People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.

Esmeralda Santiago

#12. But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

E.L. Konigsburg

#13. The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out-

Emily Dickinson

#14. If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.

Romano Prodi

#15. An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs,

Francis Bacon

#16. If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

Charles Kennedy