Public Gatherings Quotes

#1. Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

Jeff Greenfield

#2. I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

Francis Lee

#3. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

#4. The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.

Michael Longley

#5. Called you? he- wait you're Bob? the Bob? Annabeth Chase

Rick Riordan

#6. I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

Geena Davis

#7. We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.

Paul R. Gross

#8. This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

Chloe Sevigny

#10. Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Phyllis McGinley

#11. Why couldn't he stop talking and let them drink his health?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.

Ted Turner