Understatement Def Quotes

#1. When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites

#2. From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

Noah Feldman

#3. [T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.

Richard Brown

#4. I love you as river love the ocean.
I love you as the rain love the earth.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you're on the terrorist watch list - not just the no-fly list, which is a much more targeted list, but the terrorist watch list - you should not be able to buy a weapon.

Rob Portman

#6. My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.

Gene Simmons

#7. Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.

Paul Bowles

#8. Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

Norman Finkelstein

#9. The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated by
this word : attitude

Ency Bearis

#10. I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

Garry Trudeau