Quotes 381 till 400 of 1468.
-
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198 -
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
-
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
-
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
-
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
-
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
-
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
-
I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
-
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
-
I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
-
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
-
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
-
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
-
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
-
I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!
-
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
-
I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
-
I feel bad about the whole thing but all good things must come to an end sometime. I've got many pleasant memories, especially those two Stanley Cups.
Quoted in Kevin Shea, One on One with Bernie Parent, Legends of Hockey.net
All two-year famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 20)
