"Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

-- Ann Richards

#Feet Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Politics Quotes

“It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.”
“From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.”
“He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.”
“My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.”
“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”
“I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.”
“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.”

Source : John Graves (1960). “Goodbye to a river: a narrative”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.”

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