United States Elections 2012 Quotes

#1. We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Glenn Greenwald

#3. Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

Stephen Colbert

#4. Every single decision of your life is predicated on the healthy functioning of the prefrontal cortex. Even a slight malfunction in a tiny chunk of neuron anywhere in the PFC would lead to the mental deficit in your logical decision-making.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon, than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

William Shakespeare

#6. I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements.

Elizabeth Berrien

#7. Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.
I am old.
Walter

Barbara Wersba

#8. Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

Jeremy Jackson

#9. Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

Stephen Colbert

#10. Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

Philippa Gregory

#11. I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

Paul Reiser

#12. A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

Glenn Greenwald