#uttered

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believing #comment #constrained #duties #exposed

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#desk #rituals #special #usually #writing

What is uttered is finished and done with. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#finished #uttered

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#difficult #ever #faith #god #in the beginning

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#angel #assures #babe #before #born

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#often #original #though #thought #times

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. ↗

— William Cobbett

#buoy #empty #falsehoods #last #long

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#desk #doing #job #probably #you

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#cluttered #curious #get #going #i

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#character #cluttered #i #like #old