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| [The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form. | | Marcel Proust | |
| [The most effective president, he told Forbes magazine 11 months ago, was Harry Truman, because] everybody who worked for him worshiped him because he was absolutely trustworthy. ... His great strength was not charisma, as is commonly thought, but his awareness and acceptance of exactly what he could do and what he could not do. | | Ronald Reagan | |
| [The pictures] stunned every American, ... They showed acts that are despicable. The president has spoken to this. It is totally out of character of what we would expect from our men and women in uniform. | | Colin Powell | |
| [The plot has echoes of] National Velvet, ... Gone With the Wind. | | Elizabeth Taylor | |
| [The plot of] Always ... Patsy Cline ... Bessie Smith. | | Bob Dylan | |
| [The road map for Middle East peace, developed by the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union,] places obligations and responsibilities on all of the parties, ... We must see the end of terror and the end of violence. | | Colin Powell | |
| [The show is billed as] An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin. ... The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. | | Lily Tomlin | |
| [The star of the hit television comedy] Friends ... Mr. & Mrs. Smith. | | Brad Pitt | |
| [The truth, of course, is that Kerry, relying on the notion that voters hold a negative view of the Bush-Cheney status quo, fills the traditional role of the] gloom and doom ... better off today than they were four years ago. | | Ronald Reagan | |
| [The undersecretary's blundering tour of the Middle East might be the latest incarnation of Innocents Abroad.] The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them, ... We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them. | | Mark Twain | |
| [There has been a] review of some of the activities that take place between the United States and France on a bilateral basis, ... Some of our joint military activities are being looked at in light of the changed circumstances. | | Colin Powell | |
| [They flew on a supply helicopter and visited a tent camp for survivors. Pitt announced that he would buy 40 orthopedic beds worth $100,000.] These people have suffered so much, but they have such tremendous spirit, ... I'm really moved by the relief effort. | | Brad Pitt | |
| [The] hardest working man in country music, ... given everything an artist can give to country music. | | Garth Brooks | |
| [Things only get more right-wing when Bacharach unveils] Where Did It Go? ... When I was a young boy/ 12 years old/ Growing up in New York City/ I could ride the subway by myself/ And never, ever be afraid/ Where did it go? | | Burt Bacharach | |
| [Throughout the film, Patrick, who prefers to be called Kitten, dismisses all politics as] serious, serious, serious. ... I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| [To lower his taxable income, Hitler resorted to many of the perfectly legal tax avoidance strategies that Germans still use extensively today. He tried to write off his new Mercedes in 1925 as a] company car. ... only a means to an end. | | Adolf Hitler | |
| [to moe on the phone] Hi. I'm looking for a man first name hugh last name jass. [moe: ok as anyone seen a Hugh Jass? hello I'm looking for a Hugh Jass!] | | Bart Simpson | |
| [Tuesday night, Bradley spoke like a man about to end his presidential campaign. Addressing a throng of supporters in New York, Bradley said Gore] won, and I lost, ... Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing. | | Vince Lombardi | |
| [T]he sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. | | William James | |
| [T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle. . . | | George Eliot | |
