A Quotes
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“And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.”
“And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.”
“And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.”
“And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.”
Source: East of Eden
“And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.”
“And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.”
“And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.”
“And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.”
“And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.”
“And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.”
“And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.”
Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.”
“And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.”
“And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved.”
“And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.”
“And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.”
“And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.”
Source: Paradise lost
“And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.”
Source: M Is for Magic
“And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.”
Source: Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series
“And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.”
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.”
“And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.”
“And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.”
“And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.”
“And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.”
“And, the sets that they built are just so beautiful. It's like going to a completely foreign country and experiencing a new culture that you've never seen before, especially at Camelot. It's just so magical. Personally, it's just so much more interesting than wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and walking around somebody else's house.”
“And, there are negatives and positives to it. Like, you know, just like a marriage, where you're like, "Well, this... you know, is the sex still as exciting as it was two years ago?"”
“And, there's clearly not going to be any outside help coming, anytime soon. These people are going to have to figure out some way to get out of this situation, and they're going to choose all sorts of crazy-ass strategies.”
“And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.”
“And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.”
Source: Dramatic Works: The renegado. The picture. The fatal dowry. The emperor of the East. The maid of honour
“And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.”
“And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.”
“And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.”
Source: The Sceptical Chymist
“And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.”
“And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.”
“And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.”
“and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”
Source: A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)
“And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.”
“And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.”
“And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.”
“And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.”
“And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.”
Source: John Dies at the End
“And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?”
“And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.”
“And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
“And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.”
Source: Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld