Party Quotes - Page 26

• You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Guy, Leaving, Great Gifts

  "The Girl in Blue". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1970.

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• I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.

  Allen West

  Believe, Progressive, Communist

  "The Death Of Facts In An Age Of 'Truthiness'". "All Thnigs Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 29, 2012.

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• Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

  Richelle Mead

  Land, Waiting, Loyal

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.203, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

  Allen West

  Military, Views, Perspective

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• I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Voting, Conservative, Labour

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• The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

  Joss Whedon

  Emotional, Two, Matter

  "50 Joss Whedon Quotes For His 50th Birthday" by Kevin P. Sullivan, www.mtv.com. June 23, 2014.

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• At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

  Kristen Wiig

  Talking, Dumb, Forget

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Morning, New York

  "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen". Book by Christopher McDougall, March 29, 2011.

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• Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

  George Will

  Years, Two, Presidential

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• Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

  George Will

  Alaska, Office, President

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• Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

  George Will

  Two, Office, President

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• He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Philosophy, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1400, Delphi Classics

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• I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

  Stephen Fry

  Tupperware, Found

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.125, The Overlook Press

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• Dear Alec & Magnus, It's Izzy. Got your card. Glad you're having fun. Nothing's happening here-Clary's mom is marrying some werewolf. I think you guys should get married too. I'm thinking about planing it. I love planing parties. -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Fun, Thinking

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• He scowled at me."You aren't any fun." "Party pooper extraordinaire,that's me.

  Kiersten White

  Fun

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• The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Tea, Ignorant

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• Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sweet, Brother, Brain

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• Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they met at a party, that smile would've guaranteed him a date. The man was hot. There was no doubt. But right now, all it would get him was a solid punch in those even teeth. Audrey laughed. "Aren't you sweet? Tell me, do girls usually throw their panties at you when you do that?" He grinned wider, and she glimpsed the funny evil spark in his eyes. "Do men throw money when you do your little Southern belle?

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Sweet, Art

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.103, NYLA

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• ‎''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

  Tove Jansson

  Mistake, Sleep, Beer

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.143, Macmillan

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• They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

  Libba Bray

  Evil, Genius, Evil Genius

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.339, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

  Steven Moffat

  Mets, Know How, Knows

  "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sorry, Thinking, Self

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.54, Macmillan

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• The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Real, Believe

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

  Janet Fitch

  Happy Birthday, Cake, Wish

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, Ties, Perfect

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