Oval Quotes - Page 2

• I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Eggs, Smooth

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• Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

  David K. Shipler

  Office, Fit, Caricatures

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• Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

  Tom Wolfe

  Simple, Men, Curves

  Tom Wolfe (2009). “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”, p.147, Macmillan

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• Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.

  Molly Ivins

  Lying, Feel Better, Weather

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• Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

  Ron Fournier

  Country, Kings, Office

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• So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Differences, Mars

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• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

  Rahm Emanuel

  Land, White, Office

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

  Robert Draper

  Father, Office, Administration

  "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Office

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

  Sara Genn

  Eggs, Perfect, Challenges

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• Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Office, President

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• I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone. It's certainly worth a try. I'm convinced Watergate would never have happened if there had just been a sign in the Oval Office that said, Malfeasance of Office Is Strictly Against the Law, or Thank You for Not Undermining the Constitution.

  George Carlin

  Humor, Fighting, Thinking

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

  Bob Barr

  Clouds, Government, Office

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• The Oval Office symbolizes…the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I’m going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it’s appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

  Andrew Card

  Dream, Thinking, Expectations

  "Former Chief of Staff to Obama: Put Your Jacket On" by Bernie Becker, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. February 4, 2009.

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• See, one of the interesting things in the Oval Office - I love to bring people into the Oval Office - right around the corner from here - and say, this is where I office, but I want you to know the office is always bigger than the person.

  George W. Bush

  People, Interesting, Office

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• It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

  Robert McNamara

  Beautiful, Fall, Night

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• THERE IS A GAS LEAK IN THE BASEMENT OF THE SCHOOL. THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC. IT IS JUST A GAS LEAK WHICH MAY LEAD TO AN EXPLOSION AT ANY MOMENT. PLEASE ALL GO TO THE OVAL, AS PER THE FIRE DRILLS. -Charlie on the P.A.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  School, Fire, Needs

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

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• Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, Eye, Ideas

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• Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for president. And he's got a new slogan: 'Put the oval in the Oval Office.'

  Jay Leno

  Running, Giving, Office

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• Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?

  Peter Pook

  Games, Balls, Rugby

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• I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, Office

  George W. Bush Discusses North Korea, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2008.

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• Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cutting, Cities, Rivers

  Margaret Peterson Haddix, Obert Skye, Alan Snow, Anne Ursu, Jane Johnson (2006). “Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Smart, Long

  George W. Bush's remarks in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008.

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• If your calling is media, if your calling is media, fine, if your calling is sports, whatever it is, but you've gotta be the greatest you can be now. Now. Before America is so completely altered and we're left with Hillary's brain, in the Oval Office, in a jar. Because that's what we're getting.

  Matt Drudge

  Sports, Media, America

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

  George W. Bush

  Smart, People, Office

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1262, Government Printing Office

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