Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
Shakespeare - The Tempest Quotes, Famous Quotations, Sayings
He
receives comfort like cold porridge. The Tempest, 2. 1
What's
past is prologue. The Tempest, 2. 1
A
very ancient and fish-like smell. The Tempest, 2. 2
When
they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will
lay out ten to see a dead Indian. The Tempest, 2. 2
Misery
acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. The Tempest, 2. 2
The
master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate
Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang! The Tempest, 2. 2
'Ban,
'Ban, Cacaliban
Has a new master: get a new man. The Tempest, 2. 2
Thou
deboshed fish thou. The Tempest, 3. 2
Flout
'em and scout 'em
And scout 'em and flout 'em
Thought is free. The Tempest, 3. 2