A parade looks like a bunch of people are excited about being in traffic. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“Parades ain't for the people on the floats, they're for the ones watching it go by.” — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade. — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the… — Lynette Fromme Copy Share Image
I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the… — Allen West Copy Share Image
But planes land and so do I, and suns rise, melting away the grounds cool protection. I am finally free, if only… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“In a recent issue of Parade Magazine when asked for "Advice for a Younger You," Glenn Close responded: "I'd tell myself to… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, people who choose to… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
I’m frankly sick of all the books and movies trying to predict when Jesus will return and we’ll get to start our… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade. — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
