Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
James Bond: Why is it that people who can't take advice always insist on giving it?
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Let’s face it. It’s already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.
Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
Atheism is a religion of egoism....they hate the name "God" so much that they INSIST that whatever CAUSED BigBang should not be called anything else except Bigbang.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!
