Harold Ickes Quotes

#1. Nothing so extraordinary has ever happened in American politics," a dazed Harold Ickes wrote. "Here was a man - a Democrat until a couple of years ago - who, without any organization went into a Republican National Convention and ran away with the nomination for President .

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#2. When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer ... the way Courtney Love is a singer.

Kathy Griffin

#4. I am against government by crony.

Harold L. Ickes

#5. I looked up from that churning amphitheater to the view beyond it.
The great, gray eye of the sky looked back at me, its mist-shrouded sun focusing
all the white and silent distances that poured from every point of the compass, hill after pale hill, to stall at my feet.

Sylvia Plath

#6. The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

Chuck Klosterman

#7. It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

Harold L. Ickes

#8. One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

David Auburn

#9. Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

Henry Winkler

#10. Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao-Tzu

The RZA

#11. I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

Rachael Ray

#12. It's ... .my God, it's amazing," I whispered as he took my left hand in his.
"Can I put it on your finger?" he asked, peering up at me. When I nodded, he pressed his lips together, sliding the silver band over my knuckle, holding it in place for a moment before letting go. "Now it's amazing.

Jamie McGuire

#13. Sometimes ... it's better for a man just to walk away.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess that's when it's tough.

Arthur Miller

#14. The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect.That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Harold L. Ickes

#15. He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore.

Jack London

#16. What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.

Harold L. Ickes