Inauguration Address Quotes

#1. President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

Anna Deavere Smith

#2. I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

Margaret Deland

#4. Shadow always had high hopes for haircuts, but they never lived up to his expectations.
After every haircut he looked more or less the same, only with shorter hair.

Neil Gaiman

#5. I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

Uri Geller

#6. The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

Aaron Dontez Yates

#7. I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.

Ban Ki-moon

#8. I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further.

Jack Kerouac

#9. My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs.

Pratibha Patil

#10. But you base everything on people you know.

Gena Rowlands

#11. I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

John Williams

#12. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

Yogi Berra

#13. Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.

Ellen Hopkins

#15. The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Salman Rushdie

#16. Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

Maria Mitchell