February 11, 2012

Famous quote by George J. Mitchell

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

February 09, 2012

Zac Efron quotes

I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza. I was like, Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

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February 07, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Patti LaBelle

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I'm no different than you.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

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Famous quote by Justin Hayward

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

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February 06, 2012

Quotes by Jeanette Winterson

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

What you risk reveals what you value.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. Like a genuis, she is ignorant of what she does.

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February 05, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Neil Young

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

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February 03, 2012

William Blackstone quotes

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.