Politician Quotations Quotes

#1. Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#2. I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

Zahi Hawass

#3. Human life is beyond comprehension.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#4. The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

Stewart Stafford

#5. With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

Mia Wasikowska

#6. It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Joe Orton

#7. I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

Lawrence Kasdan

#8. What is a corrupted politician for a country which is like a fat fish? Just a cat, nothing but a piggish cat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

Sigourney Weaver

#10. A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#11. For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.

Signe Baumane

#13. It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically.
"That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him.

Christopher Isherwood

#14. DeBlass's eyes darted left and right. His breathing grew hard and fast.
"My client does not acknowledge ownership of the weapon in question."
"Your client's scum."
The lawyer puffed up. "Lieutenant Dallas, you're speaking of a United States Senator."
"That makes him elected scum.

J.D. Robb

#15. I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat anything more than grass as far as I know, to live all the summer. Not an interesting life perhaps, but a very peaceful one.

Agatha Christie

#16. Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Epictetus

#17. Dogs are us, only innocent.

Cynthia Heimel