"Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight."

-- Edna Ferber

#Memorable Quotes #Sight Quotes #Should Quotes

“Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.”
“They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 million and his second wife, his current wife, is worth around $700 million. So when John Kerry says he's going after the wealthy in this country, he's not just talking. He's doing it!”
“Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.”
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be”
“Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.”
“What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him.”
“I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.”
“A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.”

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