Cool Aunt Sayings

#1. I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

Solange Knowles

#2. Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

William J. Clinton

#3. If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

Rand Paul

#4. That should cool matters down considerably, Aunt Arianne said, not sounding as if she'd been recently attacked by anything more than mild curiosity.

Andrea K. Host

#5. Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

Jonathan Swift

#6. Laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Torak's dead."
"Really?" Aunt Pol said. "Have you seen his grave? Have you opened the grave and seen his bones?

David Eddings

#8. There is no better insurance than the knowledge of how to do something the right way. There is no greater peace of mind than knowing you did it the right way.

Jerry G. West

#9. Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Nelson A. Miles

#10. I'm too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

David Haye

#11. As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

Sonia Sotomayor

#12. Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.

Walter Murch

#13. Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Mikhail Bakunin

#14. Doing 'Veronica Mars,' Rob Thomas is a genius. He's one of my best friends. I had this feeling like I couldn't write anything other than my stuff in Jersey and what we were talking about, like that little world, like if I can throw my Aunt Janice into it, I'm cool, but otherwise I'm screwed.

Diane Ruggiero