All Quotes

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
‐‐ Christopher Plummer

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.
‐‐ Gray Davis

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
‐‐ Joey Santiago

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.
‐‐ Tracee Ellis Ross

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
‐‐ T. D. Jakes

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
‐‐ Katha Pollitt

Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
‐‐ Michelle Malkin

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
‐‐ T. E. Hulme

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
‐‐ Nelson Boswell

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
‐‐ Astro Teller

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
‐‐ Richard Bach

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.
‐‐ Giles Andreae

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don't know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'
‐‐ Rick Perry

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
‐‐ David Low

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.
‐‐ Sholom Aleichem

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.
‐‐ Julius Schwartz

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
‐‐ John Keats

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.
‐‐ Simone Schwarz-Bart

Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.
‐‐ Richard III of England

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
‐‐ Neil Armstrong

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
‐‐ Carol Bellamy

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
‐‐ Caspar Weinberger

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Here's a list of some of the folks who have written Swamp Thing over the years: Alan Moore, Len Wein, Scott Snyder, Brian K Vaughan, Joshua Dysart, Rick Veitch, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar. That's not even a full list, but you see my point - ol' Swampy has had some seriously brilliant people behind the keyboard in his time.
‐‐ Charles Soule

Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno.
‐‐ David Letterman

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
‐‐ Ben Carson

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
‐‐ Eric Massa

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there before I was born, and before my grandmother, and her grandmother were born. So just how far is that star from Earth?
‐‐ Kim Young-ha

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
‐‐ Tallulah Bankhead