#bust

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#faith #investigator #robust #should #yet

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #combustible #his #illuminate #name

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#busted #definitely #everything #got #i

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. ↗

— Xun Zi

#blood #calm #harmony #humor #robust

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt? ↗

— George W. Bush

#any #attacks #bust #country #course

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#car #got #halloween #house #i

I'm not Blockbuster Boy. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#boy #i