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
We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra… — Clare Grogan 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
War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to -… — Bette Midler 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
Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — Milan Kundera 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
the more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“What�s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, .. Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man.… — Charlie Brotman Copy Share Image
I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the… — Chris Kattan Copy Share Image
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they… — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
