Cole Porter Quotes

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Cole Porter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 9, 1891 - October 15, 1964

Topics

GodNowDaysAnythingSomething

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

John Donne

MotivationalWorldJailPalaceOwn

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

John Gay

NoseMustWhoWipeThoseBloody

Certainly in the case of 'Kill Your Friends,' a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it.

John Niven

BookBetterFriendsYouKnowMeet

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

John Mellencamp

ChangeSocietyThinkBackGoSee

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

Robert Matsui

TimeDayParentsMeKnowNever

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

Michael Bennet

HealthChallengePeopleCareSame

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill

HappinessDonePossibleWithout

If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be able to land at military airfields as a civilian, so there's got to be some document that the Air Force or the Army has that would list all the civilian aircraft that are cleared to land at military bases.

Trevor Paglen

ArmyWantAir ForceLandMilitary

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

Tom Hodgkinson

FestivalsTableRunGamesUpOwn

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

Roone Arledge

EyeThinkTelevisionIndustryPublic

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

Luke Bryan

CharacterLuckWindEndBetterKind

I've got girlfriends who call me 'Raye' or 'L. Raye', but when somebody calls me 'Lisa', it's like, 'You've got two more times to say that and then I think you're disrespecting me and I'm going to have to cut you!'

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

MeThinkYouSayMoreTwo

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