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- You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on…
- With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse…
- Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding…
- You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.
- A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should be either nude, or wearing something as expensive as getting…
- I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really…
- Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like…
- Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the…
- The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something…
- Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his…
- Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
- The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like…
- Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
- The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for…
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
- You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
- Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government,…
- The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses…
- A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle