Quips& Quotes

“For the male nominees in the room tonight, this will be the first time in three months it won’t be terrifying to hear your name read out loud.” – Seth Meyers at the Golden Globes

“A string of words that could not be better designed to infuriate our president – Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The only name that could make him angrier is the ‘Hillary Mexico Salad Association’.” – Ibid.

“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.” – William Faulkner, quoted in a New Yorker article about Twitter

“The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” – GK Chesterton

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it, it would have been much better.” – Karl Marx’s mother, Henrietta, quoted in The Little Black Book of Political Wisdom

“Love as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Trump doesn’t start work till 11am and takes ‘executive time’ breaks all day. Thank god he’s lazy and not devoted to f---ing things up full-time.” – Bette Midler