"Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

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“In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.”

Source : "Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Common Talk HAPPY FEET TWO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.
“Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?”
“Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.”
“I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!”
“I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me.”
“I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”
“The chickens have come home to roast.”

Source : "Twisted Wisdom" by Mieder, Wolfgang, Anna Tóthné Litovkina, University of Vermont, 1999.
“I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.”

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