Premodern Magic Quotes

#1. In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.

Condoleezza Rice

#2. An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

Robert Breault

#3. My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

Timothy Simons

#4. 'Fiancee' is a very fun word to say, because I never thought I would have a fiancee or be a fiancee. Sometimes when I would introduce myself and say, 'This is my girlfriend Melanie,' it wasn't always clear what I meant. Now I get to say, 'This is my fiancee Melanie.'

Kirsten Vangsness

#5. You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

Evel Knievel

#6. Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed.

Nancy Leveson

#7. A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

Roberto Alomar

#8. The country singers understand. It's always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. Country singers are always
twanging about that number on the jukebox they can't stand to hear you play, the one with the memories.

Rob Sheffield

#9. One must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

Nancy Hale

#10. All the best swords have names." "Like Ice," she said. She looked at the blade in her hand. "Does this have a name? Oh, tell me." "Can't you guess?" Jon teased. "Your very favorite thing." Arya seemed puzzled at first. Then it came to her. She was that quick. They said it together: "Needle!

George R R Martin

#11. She talked, he nodded. She was satisfied. He was oblivious.

Megan Hart

#12. I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

Michael Caine

#13. Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

Anonymous