“Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.” CoursesNationsPresidentEventsCrisisSuicideCampaignsTerroristPresidentialMarineBombingIranianHostageTerrorist AttacksHelicoptersPresidential CampaignSomaliaSept 11BeirutDowningHostage CrisisMogadishu Author:Mark McKinnon
“Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.” Has BeensNationsLevelsTakenStreetsMediaNewsAdministrationEditorsCowardiceVansIntimidatedBulliedHigh LevelTimidityKatrinaDensNews MediaMemosDowningDowning Street Author:Frank Rich
“One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.” LawStreetsEnglandDepressingOrthodoxyDowningDowning Street Author:David Hare
“An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.” StreetsEmptyTaxiDowningDowning Street Author:Clement Attlee
“I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.” KnowsWantWantedKnownLocalsMassiveRapperGucciDowning Author:Cyhi the Prynce
“When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"” SaidSawsAliveStreetsPleaseMeetingsPenetrateCabinetsCameronDowningDowning Street Author:Brian Blessed
“Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires us to suffer all good fortune that befalls everyone we know! What a bright prospect that is-downing another quart of pickle juice every time anyone around you has a happy moment!” KnowsGivingLittlesMomentsSufferingMistakeFortuneEnvyMisfortunesJuiceGood FortunePicklesHappy MomentsDowning Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“If we want to defeat Islamic State, we first have to arrive at a cease-fire agreement in Syria. Once that has been achieved, an anti-IS coalition can be assembled, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. That, however, will be significantly more difficult in the wake of Turkey's downing of the Russian plane.” IfsWantFirstsHas BeensStatesDifficultFireIncludingDefeatRussiaCeasePlanesIslamicAgreementIranSyriaTurkeysArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisCoalitionsIslamic StateDowning Author:Martin Schulz
“Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.” MenHas BeensBookHardBigsMightYoungGuyBlackWhiteFiguresDirectorsProjectsStandardsPraiseSeriesFakeLos AngelesSexismYoung WomenMight Have BeenWireAdvancementRiceGhettoDouble StandardWhite GuysDowning Author:Ishmael Reed
“Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K.K. [Downing] was in the band. He plays them incredibly. And he's got his own nuances and his own techniques that he puts in - as he should.” ShouldPlaySongBandMembersTechniqueFoundingRespectfulNuanceDowning Author:Rob Halford
“There was a process in place at that time - the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993 - which set out the terms and conditions under which people who had been involved in paramilitary activity could come into the political process.” PeoplePoliticalProcessTermStreetsConditionsInvolvedActivityDeclarationDecemberDowningDowning Street Author:David Trimble
“When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.” GovernmentInterestDoubtSawsStreetsWingsCastsConservativeBrownVotingLabourRealisingScotlandRight WingDowningDowning Street Author:Jimmy Reid
“In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.” StreetsMinistersServantOwnersBossCall MePrimePrime MinisterCivil ServantsHappy Boss DayDowningDowning Street Author:Tony Blair
“I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.” MadeSaidI CanHelpingHandsBigsEyeCareRunningFunVoiceDarkHeardStupidSeriousTvsJokesCirclesHealHeyRanAdsHer EyesVodkaSobbingToothpasteSomberEvergreensDowningPerms Book:Dreamland Source: Dreamland
“Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.” FirstsFactsStrongWaterMissingOppositesMeetingsFruitBurningGentlemanSensationsMilkVery StrongExpectingJuiceDowningCognacFruit Juice Author:Gail Carriger
“When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.” LifeInspirationalLongHappensInspirational LifeHappeningsStayingGet BackHappy LifeLife And LoveFalling DownUps & DownsKnockingDownfallKnocked DownKnockoutsGetting Back UpDowningKnockoffs Author:Joel Osteen
“Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree” DegreesGlobal WarmingTurned DownDowning Author:Tony Blair
“Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.” WarEndsHeardStreetsSonBrotherBeatsEvidenceAuntPolicemenSisterDowningDowning StreetHousemaids Author:Reginald Arkell
“The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.” SometimesPhilosophyDesireWaterYouthListeningDemocraticDrinkingSpendingNeglectOne TimePlatoReducingFlutesLong DayYouth LifeDowning Author:Plato
“I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.” Has BeensStreetsDisappointedPalacesSnobberyDowningBuckingham PalaceDowning Street Author:Phil Taylor
“Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.” SimpleEventsFindingsWineGlassesEnjoymentMidstGetting OldGetting OlderTastingWine GlassStop TimeDowning Author:David Hyde Pierce
“Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.” PeopleWholeCitiesMorningPlantWideParksGatesDowning Author:Andrew Jackson Downing
“I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this country is at war with Germany.” Has BeensWarCountryStatesGovernmentRoomsHistoryMorningHeardStreetsNotesPreparedBritishClockOfficialsGermanyTroopsElevenBerlinCountyCabinetsUndertakingsAmbassadorsPolandBritish HistoryDowningDowning Street Author:Neville Chamberlain
“I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.” FacesCasesEconomicStreetsPolicyMeetingsArguingAlternativesFace To FaceCameronEconomic PolicyDowningDowning Street Author:Frances O'Grady