#rio

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#ago #bush #credentials #either #established

If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken. ↗

— Frank Perdue

#best way #chicken #criticizing #going #i

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#generally #great #great talent #kinds #life

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall. ↗

— River Phoenix

#car #car accident #day #die #glorious

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#cat #cats #curiosity #fesgao #darkness

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor. ↗

— Chad Smith

#jazz #sense #sense of humor #serious

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#political-philosophy #political

I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so--what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution. This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life--solving problems--and the harder they are, the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#curiousity #life

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson. ↗

— John Oliver

#hilarious #baseball

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?' ↗

— Jacob Lew

#fiscal #government #our #overall #pay