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FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too yo...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Christmas is over and Business is Business.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too y...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would ta...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS You do not know what you can miss before you try.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sev...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no cal...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Christmas is over and Business is Business
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly fee...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood - / Think you that I woul...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction ...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
FRANKLIN PIERCE A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absu...
FRANKLIN PIERCE The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ou...
FRANKLIN PIERCE Defense was the name of the game, ... This is a big win for the program — a huge win. We were knock...
FRANKLIN PIERCE Defense was the name of the game, ... This is a big win for the program — a huge win. We were knoc...
FRANKLIN PIERCE There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.
FRANKLIN PIERCE Christmas is over and Business is Business
FRANKLIN ADAMS Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN ADAMS Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year
FRANKLIN ADAMS Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would ta...
FRANKLIN ADAMS We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to ...
FRANKLIN ADAMS In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no cal...
FRANKLIN ADAMS While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly fee...
FRANKLIN ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net
FRANKLIN ADAMS The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction ...
FRANKLIN ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN ADAMS Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates app...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What t...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding ...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
PIERCE Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
TAMORA PIERCE The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking...
TAMORA PIERCE Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter ...
TAMORA PIERCE We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every ...
TAMORA PIERCE I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
TAMORA PIERCE I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third p...
TAMORA PIERCE I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to...
TAMORA PIERCE Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. ...
TAMORA PIERCE Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
TAMORA PIERCE You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself bes...
TAMORA PIERCE With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don'...
TAMORA PIERCE If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would ...
TAMORA PIERCE After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really...
TAMORA PIERCE What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves t...
TAMORA PIERCE I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any ...
TAMORA PIERCE What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achiev...
TAMORA PIERCE My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull...
TAMORA PIERCE One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my chara...
TAMORA PIERCE If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, ...
TAMORA PIERCE I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
TAMORA PIERCE Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out...
TAMORA PIERCE I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image le...
TAMORA PIERCE I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
PIERCE BROSNAN There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o...
CHARLIE PIERCE Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked i...
TAMORA PIERCE Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Wh...
TAMORA PIERCE Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve...
TAMORA PIERCE I--buy, and I sell."
"You're a thief.
TAMORA PIERCE George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think...
TAMORA PIERCE Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...
TAMORA PIERCE You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.
TAMORA PIERCE This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro...
TAMORA PIERCE I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
PIERCE BROWN Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri...
TAMORA PIERCE You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brigh...
PIERCE BROWN Photograph is a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than th...
AMBROSE PIERCE From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a gre...
PIERCE BROSNAN It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
TAMORA PIERCE Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
TAMORA PIERCE The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a...
TAMORA PIERCE I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen throug...
PIERCE BROSNAN We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are respons...
CHARLIE PIERCE Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set...
PIERCE BROSNAN 'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligat...
CHARLIE PIERCE Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together ...
PIERCE BROSNAN To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
PIERCE BROSNAN With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for s...
PIERCE BROSNAN I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.
PIERCE BROWN Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about wha...
PAUL PIERCE Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising pa...
CHARLIE PIERCE Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, ...
WENDELL PIERCE Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are cont...
PIERCE BROSNAN I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.
PIERCE BROSNAN I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
PIERCE BROSNAN Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
PAUL PIERCE Kids get influenced by other kids.
PAUL PIERCE At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I ...
PAUL PIERCE The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.
PAUL PIERCE I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.
PAUL PIERCE My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way h...
PAUL PIERCE 'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.
PAUL PIERCE I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm d...
PAUL PIERCE I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around ...
PAUL PIERCE I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3...
PAUL PIERCE I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a ...
PAUL PIERCE Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try...
PAUL PIERCE When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out ...
PAUL PIERCE I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.
PAUL PIERCE Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me ...
PAUL PIERCE I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on ...
PAUL PIERCE The Celtics don't celebrate anything but championships.
PAUL PIERCE A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back whe...
PAUL PIERCE I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approa...
PAUL PIERCE My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and h...
PAUL PIERCE When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go...
PAUL PIERCE The game isn't over till the clock says zero.
PAUL PIERCE I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play d...
PAUL PIERCE There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line...
PAUL PIERCE I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
PAUL PIERCE Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
PIERCE BROSNAN Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra...
TAMORA PIERCE A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
TAMORA PIERCE That’s what Society does—spread the blame so there is no villain
PIERCE BROWN I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It...
BEN PIERCE A lot of the technology stocks may be down lately, but people who have been holding good old blue ch...
BEN PIERCE People tend to do much of their tax planning late in the year.
BEN PIERCE What we try to do is make it easy for people with the financial means and philanthropic interest to ...
BEN PIERCE Personally, I think that the school did a poor job of letting the students know about our situation,...
BEN PIERCE Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
PIERCE BROWN I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall...
TAMORA PIERCE Scary with you is better than scary without you
TAMORA PIERCE I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
PIERCE BROSNAN Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million insta...
PIERCE BROSNAN You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
PIERCE BROSNAN Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
TAMORA PIERCE Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
TAMORA PIERCE Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The ...
PIERCE BROWN I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp
TAMORA PIERCE Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pi...
TAMORA PIERCE Guys ask me when I'm going to be back, and I don't have no answer for them. At the same time, I've g...
ANTONIO PIERCE We've got a lot of quality right now. Get us a defensive tackle and a little more depth, and we'll b...
ANTONIO PIERCE He's revived. He's coming back with a chip on his shoulder.
ANTONIO PIERCE maybe the smartest player we have.
ANTONIO PIERCE Jay's my boy ... He's saved our butt three or four times,
ANTONIO PIERCE That's how serious he is about proving himself. This isn't even about playing with a chip on your sh...
ANTONIO PIERCE We played those guys as tough as anybody at their place. We put ourselves in a position to win, and ...
ANTONIO PIERCE When I first signed here, I was told by Coach Coughlin, the defensive coordinator, everybody, 'We ha...
ANTONIO PIERCE We knock those guys off next week, we might not have the best record in the N.F.C., but we'd have th...
ANTONIO PIERCE It felt real good, ... Just to go out and prove that I can do it week in and week out. Not just to t...
ANTONIO PIERCE The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality i...
CHARLIE PIERCE Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or,...
CHARLIE PIERCE Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you...
TAMORA PIERCE Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere ...
MARY PIERCE The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow...
CHARLIE PIERCE I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pret...
PIERCE BROSNAN I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in t...
PIERCE BROSNAN A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQuee...
PIERCE BROSNAN There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular ...
TAMORA PIERCE Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obey...
TAMORA PIERCE