"It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook."

-- Ken Livingstone

#Nice Quotes #Trying Quotes #Crooks Quotes

“In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.”
“And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.”
“A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me."”
“I have a beautiful address book a friend gave me in 1966. I literally cannot open it again. Ever. It sits on the shelf with over a hundred names crossed out. What is there to say? There are no words. I'll never understand why it happened to us.”
“I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.”
“The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.”

Source : "A Living Bill of Rights". Book by William O. Douglas, 1961.
“I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.”
“We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.”

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