Totenberg Quotes

#1. I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.

Nina Totenberg

#2. Breakfast, it seems, is the only meal any of us are decent at. And this one" - she jabbed a thumb in Rowan's direction - "only knows how to cook meat on a stick over a fire." Lysandra

Sarah J. Maas

#3. I was pretty sure I would never have to worry about finding the right guy. I thought it would happen for me the way it happened for my parents and for my grandparents. They got to the right age, they found the right person, they got married, they had kids.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. Her taste for symmetry and structure, it helped her thoughts drift. Symmetry did not chain her, it set her free. (p. 85)

Deborah Levy

#5. What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

Nina Totenberg

#6. He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

Douglas Adams

#7. I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Nina Totenberg

#8. Don't I know? Not like I haven't done this." He picked up the plant and lugged it with him, muttering, "Stand there, Shamus. Don't bother the new girl, Shamus. Don't back-talk me when I'm teaching, Shamus." Maeve raised her eyebrows. "Don't back-talk me even when I'm not teaching, Shamus," she said.

Devon Monk

#9. Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class

Buzzy Trent

#10. I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Nina Totenberg

#11. Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

Nina Totenberg

#12. Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

Kanye West

#13. A man falls down a flight of stairs and somebody rushes over to him and asks, "Did you miss a step?"
"No," he answers, "I hit every one of them!

Milton Berle

#14. If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

Nina Totenberg

#15. [On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.

Nina Totenberg

#16. [On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

Nina Totenberg

#17. Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

Nina Totenberg