"That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say."

-- Vicki Lawrence

#Opportunity Quotes #Want Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.”
“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”
“How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.158, Macmillan
“When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.”
“Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?”
“We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.”
“You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.”
“Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.”

Source : Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

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