Political Illiterate Quotes

#1. An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.
lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

Robert Jordan

#2. The world by and large has to be reinvented.

Charles Handy

#3. Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.

Greg Perry

#4. If you do not face something, it will follow you anyway.

Alice Hoffman

#5. Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Harry Browne

#6. Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Louis Menand

#7. Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

Mary McCarthy

#8. I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

Laurie Graham

#9. You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house after the TV set has been pitched out the upstairs window. (from "Antilamentation")

Dorianne Laux

#10. The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Andre Gide

#11. When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

Adelina Sotnikova

#12. Be attentive.
Be adaptive.
Be accommodative.
Be assertive.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.

Melinda Clarke

#14. A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

L. Ron Hubbard

#15. I love redheads. It's not the hair color, it's the crazy.

Michael Makai

#16. I am a poem in progress
with no clear beginning or ending
just a middle
untended, unintended,
unfinished, hanging there
like the breath before a question

Jen Lynn Anderson