"As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list."

-- Jeff Greenfield

#Husband Quotes #Real Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.”
“we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.”
“The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.”

Source : Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.”
“This is so sexist. I mean, are we really going to put this as a standard of something we are going to judge our presidential candidates by?”
“Pictures are written, acted, directed, photographed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.”
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”

Source : Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey
“Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.”

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