Quotes About Lame Dudes

#1. Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.

Ron Fournier

#2. But all this was nothing compared to the face which I regret to say vaguely resembled my own, less the refinement of course, same little abortive moustache, same little ferrety eyes, same paraphimosis of the nose, and a thin red mouth that looked as if it was raw from trying to shit its tongue.

Samuel Beckett

#3. Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.

Hilary Rosen

#4. People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know.

Miley Cyrus

#5. The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Let your plans be assured from the end to the beginning. Let it be clear that the end is hopeful. Wake up.

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. I am waylaid by beauty.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#9. You might not be able to run a paintbrush over unpleasant memories, but you can certainly cover them with a black cloth and pretend they don't exist.

Amy Matayo

#10. Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Matthew Henry

#11. I don't rate them, I just hit them.

Willie Mays

#12. As the eclipse progresses, a confusion of chattering birds sweeps low in search of dusk and their shadows skip over the water's surface and it makes perfect sense that these small creatures should be so moved by events beyond their reckoning.

John Pipkin

#13. I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

Milton Friedman

#14. I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

Jim Rash

#15. As long as we love happiness will be our constant companion.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann