The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin
Recitation: by Male by Female
Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
John Cleveland
HomeGodWanderHimBeenChanged
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John Updike
EducationWisdomChildrenParents
I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.
John Polson
PowerPeopleMePartyGoStreet
The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
Steven Weber
PoliticsGameBecomeInchesFact
A lot of celebrities are afraid of being out of sight, out of mind. I'm the complete opposite.
Rob Van Dam
MindSightAfraidOutCompleteLot
The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job.
RuPaul
TimeJobI AmMeYouWill
A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
Josh Gondelman
LaughReleaseBigTensionSetEnds
Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Douglas Coupland
AdventureRiskDisneylandWithout
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Claude Debussy
BeautyEffortImpressWithoutUs
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
Bruno Mars
ChocolateYouThreeProductVanilla
Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
Bob Beauprez
EnergyPolicyOutOurPayingLack
Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.
Bob Beckel
TimeMeThinkPoliticalWrongKnow
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Ruskin