Occasional Tables Quotes

#1. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth. Ask

Cormac McCarthy

#2. Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

John Stossel

#3. He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

John Ray

#4. And I said no ma'am I just aim to quit. I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

Vera Nazarian

#6. You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

Brian Michael Bendis

#8. If society were only relieved of the waste and expense of keeping a lazy class, and the equally great expense of the paraphernalia of protection this lazy class requires, the social tables would contain an abundance for all, including even the occasional lazy individual.

Emma Goldman

#9. 13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

Lemony Snicket

#10. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

Jacqueline Carey