#sayin

Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#california #commission #could #help #i

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#falklands #first #got #gulf #gulf war

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#anything #briefing #dreadfully #function #i

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#bad taste #before #said #saying #should

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#approach #been #concrete #deciding #down

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#anybody #anymore #been #believes #eu

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?' ↗

— Mike Farrell

#financial #going #kind #market #mostly

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm. ↗

— Edward Burns

#before #find #gave #i #i do

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#debates #ever #get #going #gosh

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits