Quotes for All
In America, we need to go forward in nationalizing several large corporations: I think that’s possible; we nationalized General Motors; we nationalized several of the big banks, de facto; we nationalized Chrysler; we nationalized AIG. I think there will be more crises, and at some point, rather than being bailed out by the government, the … Read more
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover’s bed, no campaign … Read more
Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it’s always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them. Evan Thomas
I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat … yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance. Erma Bombeck
Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:…Drowning? Silverstream: Can’t you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there? Erin Hunter
I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism. Erich Fromm
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself. Erica Jong
I jump out of the boat [in The Lost World], and I’m trying to swim to the kid, and my boots fill with water, and I start to drown, and the director has no idea why I’m flailing around. He’s, Come on, come on! And I managed to rescue myself. I’m wet and sitting on … Read more
To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. Eric Alterman
As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me. Emmylou Harris