Meccas Most Distinguished Quotes

#1. You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Dick Cheney

#2. Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

Andrew Rosenthal

#3. It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

Tennessee Williams

#4. You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

W.G. Sebald

#5. It is preferable to have a virgin mind than a virgin body. Each is good if each be possible; if it be not possible, let me be chaste, not to man but to God.

Ambrose Of Milan

#6. I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

Joseph Brodsky

#7. Unfortunately we have to remember we're scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap.

Clive Cussler

#8. I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

Ed O'Neill

#9. There are young women who have goals other than finding a husband.

Lisa Kleypas