Press Gang Quotes

#1. Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

Andrew Johnson

#2. Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity ... The second fundamental thing is independence.

Maria Montessori

#3. The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax." ... "Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there.

Barbara Elsborg

#4. We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

Edward Snowden

#5. Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

Lee Hazlewood

#6. Something in me wants more. I can't rest.

Sylvia Plath

#7. Uncanny how models in cigarette ads always have that not-watching-anything, not-thinking-anything look in their eyes.

Haruki Murakami

#8. She doesn't really have a sense of humor. I think she'd like to have one - it's just that she doesn't quite understand what jokes are for.

Sophie Kinsella

#9. Sparhawk's reputation must have preceded him. The Massachusetts coast, as he was often reminded, was shaped like an ear. It heard everything.

Donna Thorland

#10. Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom
it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Helen Rowland

#12. Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

Quentin Blake

#13. I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

Rachel Dratch

#14. There is no shame in what happened to you. There is only shame in being too much of a coward to carry on. In not realizing that what happened to you is not you. What happened is not the same as who you are.

Morgan Rice