(1771 quotes found)
“Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.”
Charles Krauthammer
“Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice.”
Conan O'Brien
“As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.”
Edmund Hillary
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
Clarence Day
“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano”
James Whistler
“Too many freeways, too much sun, too much abnormality taken normally, too many pink stucco houses and pink stucco consciences.”
Clancy Sigal
“PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.”
Johnny Carson
“I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I'm definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me.”
Beverly Mitchell
“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (Revelations 5:8)”
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