FastSaying

If their constituents think ideology is a good reason to vote against a nominee, ... they're going to vote against him.


Lee Epstein

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Of course, the republicans are going to vote with their party line, but the democrats couldn't find ...
JAMES PAYNE If assurances were given of how any nominee ? whether this nominee or anybody else ? and somebody gi...
PATRICK LEAHY A vote for this issue is a vote against democracy.
CARLOS RAMOS If I had to vote now for immediate action against Iraq, I'd vote no,
LARRY CRAIG If they want to vote against him, you know darn well they're captives of these ... very liberal outs...
ORRIN HATCH I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is go...
ERIC MASSA Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN Young Latinos have been telling me that they want to register to vote because of Donald Trump. Not b...
JORGE RAMOS People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu...
WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S. TRUMAN When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan I know he's going to vote against me
HARRY S TRUMAN He owes his election and political soul to Fabian Nuñez. It's going to be very hard for him to vote...
BOB HOLMES I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
W. C. FIELDS I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
W. C. FIELDS If people can't vote for you, then I doubt they can vote for any Republican nominee.
ORRIN HATCH My reaction as a voter is to reach Hispanic voters in his district and get them to vote against him.
DAVID HERNANDEZ People are ethical and are going to vote the way they want to, the way that's best for their constit...
DANNY MARSHALL Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. FIELDS Alabama and other states had a terrible record in terms of depriving people of their right to vote, ...
LUTHER STRANGE Some people don't believe their vote counts when they vote for candidates. If you have people who ar...
DANE WATERS If people vote no, it's not going to lower their property taxes. If people vote yes, it's not going ...
DAN REICHENBORN There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He owes his election and political soul to Fabian Nuñez. It's goi...
BOB HOLMES I have too many unanswered questions about the nominee to justify a vote confirming him to this enor...
HARRY REID Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN Hispanics who otherwise would have supported a Republican presidential nominee in 2008 are going to ...
CARLOS ORTIZ People who want to vote against Tony Blair for a variety of reasons can and should vote Liberal Demo...
BRIAN SEDGEMORE A fraud is being committed beyond the voting booths, obliging people to vote against their will. An ...
HORACIO SERPA The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the...
ALEXEI NAVALNY And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ...
ROBERT BYRD Nowhere in the letter does it say, 'Vote against the budget reconciliation package,' ... We're askin...
ZOE LOFGREN It's certainly the prerogative of Democrats to vote against tax cuts if that's how they feel,
ARI FLEISCHER We are immigrants, and we vote. We want to send the message very clearly that we are going to vote a...
GUSTAVO TORRES All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a pla...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It will probably will be a party-line vote coming out of committee, but on the floor I think there w...
BOB BARR Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE Their constituents want them to vote for it. They'll sit back and take a breath and look at what the...
REP. SCOTT GUNDERSON Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convent...
CHARLES A. BEARD We're going to continue to campaign against this whether or not I'm a nominee.
JIM PETRO will vote overwhelmingly against it but will be unable to defeat it.
CARL LEVIN McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
PAT ROBERTSON If we're going to vote on extraneous amendments that our Democrat colleagues want to vote on, then I...
PHIL GRAMM People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
TED STEVENS All our three factions have taken a decision to vote against Chernomyrdin. We do not think he will b...
GENNADY ZYUGANOV How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS It is very unusual for the International Atomic Energy Agency to vote on a decision, so the adoption...
HAMID-REZA ASEFI For someone to vote against it they can't really represent a very important segment of our community...
LEE BROWN Blue guys in red states will see themselves getting killed politically if they vote against it.
DAVID BARTON I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vot...
BOB WEIR It's difficult to go against a president's nominee.
LEON FRIEDMAN For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I will vote against this directive because it opens the doors to all manner of abuse, and pits worke...
JOSEPH MUSCAT He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certa...
JEREMY TAYLOR As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take ...
MOLLY IVINS Once I saw how bad it was, ... I had three options -- vote for it, vote against it, or come up with ...
DOUG PRICE Obviously if he donates generously to my campaign, I'm going to vote for him to be speaker.
WILLIAM STEWART Just on grounds of being evasive, he will probably get a core of Democrats who will vote against him...
MARSHALL WITTMANN I'm going to see what happens before I decide whether I'll vote for Gov. Fletcher again, but overall...
DENNIS MARTIN If there's a strong majority of Sunnis, which is very possible, that vote against that constitution,...
CARL LEVIN I think it's definitely a very effective [way] of bringing values voters, giving them a reason to vo...
REP. DENNIS BAXLEY It was a punishment vote against the current government, which has done nothing to improve the livin...
HORACIO SERPA So if all that Ms. Greene has done is looked out for her constituents, and said that she's going to ...
ROBERT JARVIS This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicia...
ORRIN HATCH I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.
SENATOR JOHN KERRY Brian and I will vote for some kind of smoking ordinance while Jack is against it,
FRANK RIZZO Enough people came out to vote against the establishment. If they think they've won, they haven't. T...
JOE FERRER If the legislators are listening to their constituents and their conscience, they will vote for a si...
JAY LAPEYRE People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood,...
MARTY KAPLAN We don't believe the Senate can sustain a filibuster, ... Any Democrat that wants to vote against th...
DICK ARMEY He's not going to win, but my vote is a vote for having more voices heard in the country.
LARRY BELL We will recommend to those of our clients, who are shareholders in Nelson, to vote against this deal...
DMITRY LUKASHOV What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?
EMMELINE PANKHURST Who is going to vote?
BARRY ERWIN If New Delhi decides to vote against the resolution that would definitely put obstacles at least in ...
HENRY SOKOLSKI I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, ... But let me say if some...
CHARLES SCHUMER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We need a fair contract. Teachers feel totally disrespected. A lot of the vote was against the disre...
BEN VISNICK A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.
DAVE BRAT If the PM wants to answer a different question, that’s fine, and that’s a good answer to a differe...
GARY ACKERMAN Whoever that is in the middle of there, I'm not going to vote for him.
JOHN MCCAIN There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, an...
SOURCE UNKNOWN When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI In many ways I think the French electorate will decide the timing because if the French vote 'no' th...
FRANK DOBSON As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, t...
MOLLY IVINS I think [the election] is a good process to go through. I think it is needed so that students have a...
EMILY VINCENT We're not going to try to force a vote unless we think we can win it.
STEPHEN HARPER A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If all we're doing on the Internet is giving people another opportunity to vote, you can predict it'...
DAVID MASON There's no one willing to change their vote, there's no reason to have another vote, ... Right now, ...
LEE BROWN If you want to enjoy good leadership, vote wisely to elect good leaders.
SEGUN OLOGE Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
WILL ROGERS

More Lee Epstein

During the first four years of justices' tenure, their voting behavior correlates at a rather high l...
LEE EPSTEIN I told my class the other day I have no idea what judicial activism is, ... Maybe the best definitio...
LEE EPSTEIN In other words, liberal presidents appoint liberal justices who continue to take liberal positions f...
LEE EPSTEIN Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to wo...
JACOB EPSTEIN As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of...
JACOB EPSTEIN My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its ...
JACOB EPSTEIN My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their id...
JACOB EPSTEIN I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sci...
JACOB EPSTEIN The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, wh...
JACOB EPSTEIN I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me...
JACOB EPSTEIN My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the wor...
JACOB EPSTEIN There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can ...
JACOB EPSTEIN Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and th...
JASON EPSTEIN All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN I'm optimistic they can do the job that has been asked of them. Regional planning partners sound ver...
BEA EPSTEIN I'm speechless. I can't believe it.
BEA EPSTEIN I think the chairs of the (Incline Vision) subcommittees are really the anchor people that can effec...
BEA EPSTEIN I think Incline Village has already shown how serious we are about the visiting process. By looking ...
BEA EPSTEIN In looking over what the TRPA proposed I found it to be grossly inadequate.
BEA EPSTEIN I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN There's just nothing funnier or crazier than that - doing your Broadway debut as Spider-Man in &...
JAKE EPSTEIN The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: th...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!'...
JAKE EPSTEIN I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the...
JACOB EPSTEIN But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is...
BRIAN EPSTEIN The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available ...
JASON EPSTEIN Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.
BRIAN EPSTEIN Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.
BRIAN EPSTEIN They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own com...
BRIAN EPSTEIN I am determined to go through the horror of this world.
BRIAN EPSTEIN But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is...
BRIAN EPSTEIN Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big...
BRIAN EPSTEIN One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it co...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN We're forever indebted to them. Someone, I'm sure, won't be back. It's appropriate to thank them for...
THEO EPSTEIN I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven dea...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of “perv...
MARK EPSTEIN My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN I think this is a real wake-up call for both patients and the medical community.
ARTHUR EPSTEIN Patients should be concerned but not alarmed, as the number of patients affected is still relatively...
ARTHUR EPSTEIN G. Stanley Hall, a creature of his times, believed strongly that adolescence was determined �...
ROBERT EPSTEIN In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive min...
MARK EPSTEIN Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship...
MARK EPSTEIN Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon. He's his own player. He brings his own strengths.
THEO EPSTEIN It always takes two to tango.
THEO EPSTEIN I must refute the implication ... that a landscape architect is a glorified gardener. A landscape ar...
MARK EPSTEIN The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershe...
JAKE EPSTEIN For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it...
JAKE EPSTEIN I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's f...
ROBIN EPSTEIN In these days of international commerce and travel, an infectious disorder that appears in one part ...
PAUL EPSTEIN The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thou...
JASON EPSTEIN Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of h...
THEO EPSTEIN Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon -- he is his own player. He brings his own strengths. Johnny was an o...
THEO EPSTEIN I don't think it's predestined. This season for a lot of teams in a lot of ways has been about survi...
THEO EPSTEIN Even idiots can grow up a little bit. It should be a bit more subdued. ... The first celebration sho...
THEO EPSTEIN He helped us win. That's the bottom line. He really did something selfless to help us win.
THEO EPSTEIN It's not fair to attribute my decision to any one factor or any one person, ... There were many fact...
THEO EPSTEIN For about 14 years, we've had a very successful working relationship, ... I think Larry and I like e...
THEO EPSTEIN It's not time enough for a really adequate sample size, but we have to be patient. Five starts [will...
THEO EPSTEIN That wasn't admissible. It didn't come up.
THEO EPSTEIN It might be the greatest game ever played. I'd like to hear other nominations. We were just joking a...
THEO EPSTEIN He loves his [Red Sox] teammates and he really took a liking to the organization. Not every aspect o...
THEO EPSTEIN I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
JAKE EPSTEIN We'll see how our roster shakes out, but Choi does have minor-league options if we want him to get e...
THEO EPSTEIN If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch....
DAVID EPSTEIN Coco Crisp is not Johnny Damon.
THEO EPSTEIN A frail elder without the family caregiver won't make it, but if you don't have a sense of who that ...
CYNTHIA EPSTEIN We're not going to speculate on any timetables. The most important thing is getting Coco back health...
THEO EPSTEIN He loves his [Red Sox] teammates and he really took a liking to the organization,
THEO EPSTEIN We were a strong club. We took on so many holes because of injuries. With those gaps we got to a cer...
THEO EPSTEIN You're looking at decades. But I also think you're potentially looking at hundreds of thousands, if ...
ERIC EPSTEIN This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon for reform and a lot of work still needs to be done.
ERIC EPSTEIN She's taking throat singing to a new realm. It's a great chance to see a world class group - they're...
ERIC EPSTEIN She was here in 2000. She's a remarkable dancer, certainly one of the best-known dancers in Canada.
ERIC EPSTEIN I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from steali...
ERIC EPSTEIN I was absolutely appalled. The reality is that these guys can profit from stealing the people's mone...
ERIC EPSTEIN Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after th...
ROBERT EPSTEIN Colonizers escaped (to mountainous areas) to avoid the swamps that bred malaria. Those areas are no ...
PAUL EPSTEIN This identifies the caregiver as a recipient of care and essentially as much of a patient as the fra...
CYNTHIA EPSTEIN A bikini bottom is not much different from what we're wearing. A few inches of flesh isn't going to ...
DAVID EPSTEIN We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN If a burglar drops a cigarette or takes a swig of beer [at the crime scene], the investigator can su...
DAVID EPSTEIN Even with our success, we had our flaws, and we're not ashamed to admit it.
THEO EPSTEIN We weren't the same offensive team in September/October that we were the first five months of the se...
THEO EPSTEIN Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads...
ROBIN EPSTEIN We're in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about ...
DAVID EPSTEIN The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was ...
JASON EPSTEIN The original CD met all those criteria. You were able to put it to cassette. In the last few years y...
PAUL EPSTEIN Ninety-five wins is nothing to laugh at. All the resources of this organization are going to be dedi...
THEO EPSTEIN Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally diffe...
JAKE EPSTEIN This hunt, compared with what my parents went through, was nothing. There are moments that leave the...
DENISE EPSTEIN It was, in a way, reportage, because she was writing about what she had just seen.
DENISE EPSTEIN I am sure my mother is happy. I understand now the point of my own survival.
DENISE EPSTEIN When they came for her there were no tears. It was a silent adieu. She asked me to look after papa. ...
DENISE EPSTEIN We found that impacts of climate change are likely to lead to ramifications that overlap in several ...
PAUL EPSTEIN We are looking at an emergence of new diseases and a resurgence of old diseases, and redistribution ...
PAUL EPSTEIN I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
JAKE EPSTEIN The idea is that the family is in some way able to choose from a kind of menu of what would be helpf...
CYNTHIA EPSTEIN Clearly, more and more families are providing care to people at home and are in tremendous need of a...
CYNTHIA EPSTEIN I knew it was going to be close. But the kids did what they needed to do. It was everyone. Every kid...
DAN EPSTEIN He has such a positive effect on the other kids. His sense of humor and work ethic are great example...
DAN EPSTEIN Felton has one of the best work ethics I have ever been around. If anyone can break both of them, it...
DAN EPSTEIN I'm not just looking for super athletes.
DAN EPSTEIN We're not talking about rocket science here. It's simple food, but it will be fast, fresh, and good.
DAN EPSTEIN We finally decided that Downtown was the place to be.
DAN EPSTEIN Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing pre...
JASON EPSTEIN Through most of human history, our ancestors had children shortly after puberty, just as the members...
ROBERT EPSTEIN I know how deeply slothful I am.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Curse of the Bambino.
THEO EPSTEIN What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone be...
JAKE EPSTEIN I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spi...
JAKE EPSTEIN You can look on your computer, see who is calling, decide to take the call or transfer the call to a...
HAL EPSTEIN If you have an office here and in Chicago or someone working remotely and you have the same phone sy...
HAL EPSTEIN It all comes down to phone traffic.
HAL EPSTEIN Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.
ROBIN EPSTEIN I don't think the public understands all the ramifications of those four months last year. It's tant...
ERIC EPSTEIN We've all got to play by the same rules, and I think the senator wants to tilt the playing field. An...
ERIC EPSTEIN She starred in the original Toronto production of Hair. It's a great time to go back and revisit som...
ERIC EPSTEIN This year we've decided to spread the idea of world music over an entire weekend.
ERIC EPSTEIN We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening....
MARK EPSTEIN You sort of fell in love with Jane when you met her. She was exuberant, original, strong-minded and ...
JACOB EPSTEIN A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really me...
JACOB EPSTEIN I began to think that there was something awesome about my timing. How was it that, at the exact mom...
MARK EPSTEIN We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.
Thi...
MARK EPSTEIN This was not a position to take lightly. He took a long time to make a decision.
MARGE EPSTEIN Tom left his life as we know it with a clear sense that after 9/11, he felt like he needed to do som...
MARGE EPSTEIN [One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those...
ROBERT EPSTEIN I suppose it's because beer is connected to football broadcasts and the rest of it. Beer . . . accom...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question,
JOSEPH EPSTEIN The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspape...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN If superior talk is your idea of a good time it's (hell) not really such a bad place to end up
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Because it knows where you are, it can encourage you to see things and meet people you wouldn't norm...
MICHAEL EPSTEIN Competitor magazine is by far the standard for the industry and what every other fitness magazine wa...
MICHAEL EPSTEIN It's one thing to have him as a novelty as a customer. It's another thing to have him as an associat...
MATT EPSTEIN Robert Blake has a stigma about him, although he was found not guilty. It's like O.J. Simpson. ... A...
MATT EPSTEIN [March 2002 Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming could lead to an increase in...
PAUL EPSTEIN While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experie...
MARK EPSTEIN One of the potential side-effects of drugs to treat ADHD is insomnia. Therefore, for some, the addit...
ROBERT EPSTEIN The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flatt...
JAKE EPSTEIN If I'm ever at a mall or some kind of place where there's a lot of younger girls, some peopl...
JAKE EPSTEIN Gilbert tried to reason with the smoke hound. “I am a frog,” he explained. “You are a puff of ...
ADAM JAY EPSTEIN Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
JULIUS J. EPSTEIN In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney G...
ORIT BADOUK EPSTEIN Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgivin...
RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials...
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goo...
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong p...
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of pub...
RICHARD A. EPSTEIN I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
LEE CHILD In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch...
JENNIFER LEE Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
SPIKE LEE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ...
LEE DANIELS The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a...
SPIKE LEE Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
BRANDON LEE I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me.
LEE NORRIS