"It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power."

-- Thomas Frank

#Disappointment Quotes #Party Quotes #Two Quotes

“I wrote and directed a movie called Two-Bit Waltz.”
“The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.”
“I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.”

Source : Dottie Walters (2002). “Speak and Grow Rich: Revised and Updated”, p.75, Penguin
“If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.”
“We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.”
“When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.”
“Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.”

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