Dick Gregory quote: "Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on."

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY

And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY

I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...
DICK GREGORY

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after d...
DICK GREGORY

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you...
DICK GREGORY

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who k...
DICK GREGORY

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORY

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the ...
DICK GREGORY

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down ...
DICK GREGORY

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a g...
DICK GREGORY

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, ...
DICK GREGORY

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because th...
DICK GREGORY

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
DICK GREGORY

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch you...
DICK GREGORY

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they d...
DICK GREGORY

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned
DICK GREGORY

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
DICK GREGORY

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the hist...
DICK GREGORY

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.
DICK GREGORY

We do not believe, had he been white, that he would be dead. And when we black folks say to America ...
DICK GREGORY

A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million...
DICK GREGORY

You're looking at something that is going to revolutionize the whole world.
DICK GREGORY

King was really telling us it's not about love, it's about being lovable. 'I love you baby and if I ...
DICK GREGORY

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you s...
DICK GREGORY

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has com...
DICK GREGORY

They didn't win, and I got that from the white press. At four o'clock [on Election Day 2004], that e...
DICK GREGORY

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a g...
DICK GREGORY

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
DICK GREGORY

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
DICK GREGORY

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than bla...
DICK GREGORY

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
DICK GREGORY

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORY

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, ...
DICK GREGORY

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
DICK GREGORY

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in...
DICK GREGORY

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's ...
DICK GREGORY

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have ...
DICK GREGORY

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misus...
DICK GREGORY

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
DICK GREGORY

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sp...
DICK GREGORY

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
DICK GREGORY

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick...
DICK GREGORY

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sin...
DICK GREGORY

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athle...
DICK GREGORY

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
DICK GREGORY

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jes...
DICK GREGORY

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and ...
DICK GREGORY

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
DICK GREGORY

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good...
DICK GREGORY

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an...
LADY GREGORY

Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereot...
GREGORY BENFORD

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
LADY GREGORY

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after tim...
LADY GREGORY

I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong...
LADY GREGORY

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
LADY GREGORY

It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
LADY GREGORY

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon ...
LADY GREGORY

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the M...
LADY GREGORY

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it w...
LADY GREGORY

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY

It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...
GREGORY BENFORD

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod a...
GREGORY STOCK

In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They col...
GREGORY BENFORD

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
GREGORY STOCK

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was c...
GREGORY BENFORD

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK

But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK

As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY

There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing ...
LADY GREGORY

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
GREGORY PECK

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better...
LADY GREGORY

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to ...
GREGORY BATESON

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the inte...
GREGORY BENFORD

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
GREGORY PECK

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
GREGORY PECK

Enzymes - plainly the most important biotechnology of our era - already permeate many industrial pro...
GREGORY BENFORD

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its wor...
LADY GREGORY

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE L...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and cl...
GREGORY WASSON

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

I can not be the ideal person you are searching for if i am not the ideal person i am searching for.
GREGORY SAYEGH

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.
GREGORY STOCK

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in...
GREGORY PECK

There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most lov...
GREGORY PECK

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)
GREGORY BASSHAM

Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ...
BASSHAM GREGORY

I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt f...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
GREGORY MAGUIRE

The simplest way to remove carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is to grow plants - preferably t...
GREGORY BENFORD

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans ta...
GREGORY BENFORD

We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything tha...
GREGORY STOCK

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I ...
LADY GREGORY

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone over...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very...
LADY GREGORY

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through th...
GREGORY CORSO

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena ill...
GREGORY BATESON

True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled conne...
GREGORY BENFORD

Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the ...
GREGORY PETSKO

When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to ma...
GREGORY MEEKS

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthrop...
GREGORY BATESON

It's hard to reinvent the wheel with a cop show. But 'Rookie Blue' has a pure emotional ...
GREGORY SMITH

Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into th...
GREGORY BENFORD

Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible t...
GREGORY PETSKO

Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the wo...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enem...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – w...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and Englis...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? F...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
PHILIPPA GREGORY

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - ...
GREGORY STOCK

I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself...
LADY GREGORY

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the co...
LADY GREGORY

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world t...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Missing that time and not practicing since right around Christmas, he's very, very rusty. The abilit...
BRIAN GREGORY

He definitely has proved why all the accolades have been thrown his way. He took over that game sing...
BRIAN GREGORY

I was with an NBA scout before the game, a buddy of mine. He said this is the second-most athletic t...
BRIAN GREGORY

That's a heck of a team we played tonight. Unselfish, 21 assists in 29 baskets. You have to play a v...
BRIAN GREGORY

I'd take 10 of him. He's a warrior. He's just a guy who's going to win you a lot of games. You look ...
BRIAN GREGORY

He's feeling better. He's had a week off and he's been in a (walking) boot for a week. We have to ma...
BRIAN GREGORY

We went in there short-handed. We competed and got it down to the wire. Those are the games where yo...
BRIAN GREGORY

Obviously, I'm pleased with the way we played tonight. We got a lot of good basketball from a lot of...
BRIAN GREGORY

He's a warrior. He plays multiple positions; he rebounds; he can handle the ball. He's a guy that's ...
BRIAN GREGORY

They definitely can. It's going to be as difficult, maybe more difficult, this year, though. The dep...
BRIAN GREGORY

There's stuff we need to do, day in and day out, that needs to continue and be supported by business...
BOB GREGORY

He is such a leader in all aspects. Guys rally around him. He has a great nose for the football.
BOB GREGORY

The problem for state television is that it hasn't been able to find a place, and nor can it, betwee...
BOB GREGORY

He brings us great energy. Hopefully, his role will expand. It would be good if he could give (start...
BOB GREGORY

They're going to complete balls.
BOB GREGORY

It gives us a little incentive.
BOB GREGORY

It's a tough deal. It's hard to simulate that in practice.
BOB GREGORY

They're young and they're learning, but they're playing hard, and that's all we can ask at this poin...
BOB GREGORY

I'm unable to work at the present time and I love working so that's the goal, to get back into a mor...
BOB GREGORY

There's no doubt it's a pile of money. But in order to get the message out, we can't do it alone.
BOB GREGORY

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and orde...
GREGORY BENFORD

The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about i...
GREGORY STOCK

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating disease...
GREGORY STOCK

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater l...
DAVID GREGORY

DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What wil...
GREGORY BENFORD

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