Patricia McBride Quotes

When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.

Patricia McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1942

Topics

ShoesLookBackNeverYearsUp

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

John Deacon

OldFirstNeckBassOld ThingQuite

As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

John O. Brennan

IntelligenceAppreciationValueSaves

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

Matt Taibbi

AngerEffortCrazyGoHatredSides

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Michael Gove

KnowledgeKeySocialMobility

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

John Shelby Spong

LifePathMy LifeGoWantReason

Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed?

Steven Levy

NewsSeeFeedWhoHeWants

We agree that Citizens United is a very bad decision. We don't believe outspending your opponent is the way to go, since we don't believe we will ever be outspending our opponents!

Tom Steyer

DecisionBelieveBadGoWillWay

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

RootsActionVegetablesLivingSoil

When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

Christine Pelosi

BlamePresidentCaliforniaQuick

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

Conan O'Brien

HateQualityLeadCynicismFavorite

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

Alfred de Vigny

HeartMatterHumanOriginalGifted

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

William Hazlitt

MostNarrowLearnedOftenMinded

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