Top 68 Spiro Quotes
#1. Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.
Eoin Colfer
#2. A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero, which actually I rather like - while I breathe I shall hope.
Jo Walton
#3. Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.
Louise Wareham
#4. Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.
Bob Hope
#5. Jon Spiro might have "stuff " that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had "stuff " that humans had never seen.
Eoin Colfer
#6. My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.
Dick Cavett
#7. Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.
Eoin Colfer
#8. I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.
Irwin Corey
#9. The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
A. Whitney Brown
#10. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew
#11. Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people's eyes.
Pamela Spiro Wagner
#12. That life is precious and that opportunities should not be wasted
Lynda Young Spiro
#13. I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.
Jordana Spiro
#14. My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps.
Lev L. Spiro
#15. I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Spiro T. Agnew
#16. A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Spiro T. Agnew
#17. In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.
Lev L. Spiro
#18. In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Spiro T. Agnew
#19. Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.
Lev L. Spiro
#20. Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
Spiro T. Agnew
#21. Each time you walk down the aisle of your Home Depot or Walgreens, try to remember that behind every label and package is someone's heart and soul, and that efforts in man-years or decades are behind each product.
Clifford Spiro
#22. For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.
Jordana Spiro
#23. The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Spiro T. Agnew
#24. I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.
Lev L. Spiro
#25. We having nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and maybe getting mugged by someone wearing a "No Fear" t-shirt.
Lev L. Spiro
#26. It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.
Lev L. Spiro
#27. Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Spiro T. Agnew
#28. McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.
Spiro T. Agnew
#29. An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew
#30. Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.
Lev L. Spiro
#31. Hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ...
Spiro T. Agnew
#32. I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Spiro T. Agnew
#33. It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.
Spiro T. Agnew
#34. The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Spiro T. Agnew
#35. Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Spiro T. Agnew
#36. I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
Spiro T. Agnew
#39. A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.
Spiro T. Agnew
#40. You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
Spiro T. Agnew
#41. There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.
Spiro T. Agnew
#42. Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
Spiro T. Agnew
#43. It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.
Jordana Spiro
#44. The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.
Spiro T. Agnew
#45. A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.
Spiro T. Agnew
#46. Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet ... nattering nabobs of negativism ...
Spiro T. Agnew
#47. One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.
Spiro T. Agnew
#48. The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.
Jordana Spiro
#49. The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
Spiro T. Agnew
#50. Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
#51. Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.
Spiro T. Agnew
#52. Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.
Spiro T. Agnew
#53. I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.
Jordana Spiro
#54. I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked!
Jordana Spiro
#55. I'm in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.
Jordana Spiro
#57. Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
Spiro T. Agnew
#58. I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.
Jordana Spiro
#59. Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
Lev L. Spiro
#60. The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.
Spiro T. Agnew
#61. Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.
Jordana Spiro
#62. Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.
Spiro T. Agnew
#63. I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.
Lev L. Spiro
#64. Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.
Melford Spiro
#65. Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
Spiro Kostof
#66. Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.
Spiro T. Agnew
#67. All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.
Spiro T. Agnew
#68. All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Spiro T. Agnew
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