(329 quotes found)
“Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.”
Conan O'Brien
“The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.”
Les Brown
“USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.”
David Letterman
“The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.”
“We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.”
Jeff Cooper
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
Joan Didion
“The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.”
Dan Rather
“The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month”
Robert Lee Hotz
“In modern usage a cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife - a far nastier and more humiliating state, apparently than being the wife of a philanderer, for which in fact no word exists”
Anne Fausto
