I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

A raised eyebrow an inflection of the voice a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

I don't take criticism lying down.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.