#dates

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#box #breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#boring #bunch #dates #deadlines #decorate

You need a place just a click over middle range. Don’t want to go all-out first time, but you don’t want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place.” “Bob, you’re going to give me an ulcer.” “This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn’t want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you’ll split it. Women love that. Sharing dessert’s sexy. Do not go on and on about your job over dinner. Certain death. Get her to talk about hers, and what she likes to do. Then—” “Should I be writing this down? ↗

— Nora Roberts

#friends #friendships #humor #love #dating

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999! ↗

— Adrian Belew

#dates #expect #few #going #keep

I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee. ↗

— Leslie Bibb

#dates #day #drinking #girl #go

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#given #gods #had #intended #people

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#campaign #candidates #had #most #public

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#candidates #done #first #first of all #good

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well. ↗

— Rick Danko

#been #dates #doing #going #good

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#been #candidates #democratic #democratic party #down