Charles Colson Quotes

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

Charles Colson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 16, 1931 - April 21, 2012

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WalkGrandmotherMy OwnOverOwn

Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

Matt Lauer

WorkFamilyFatherFishingMeGolf

Most of us are too enmeshed in communities to live our ideals. Outsiders have less to lose.

Anand Giridharadas

LiveLoseUsMostOurOutsiders

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.

Amanda Warren

MePlayYearsOlderThanCharacters

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Ambrose Bierce

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There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.

Stephen Rodrick

HateFootballBlueCollegeGameWhy

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

Stellan Skarsgard

GoodBeautifulChildSeeingMood

I really believe if I'm the best person for the role, I'll be hired. That's always been my experience.

Tom Hulce

BestExperienceBelievePersonRole

I don't want to be a star!

Mathieu Amalric

WantStar

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount, Jr.

BlueAncestorsEnemiesUpEnglish

I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.

Lisa Randall

TogetherHappyMeWorldUniverse

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Denis Kearney

WorldCheapDespairSlaveChinaOur

When I was younger, I think that I felt like I could only live one way, and I had to figure out which of those one ways it was going to be. I have no anxiety about making the wrong decision.

Sheila Heti

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