Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country. – Robert Dallek
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. – Ron Fournier
You don’t face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He’s the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight. – Reggie Jackson
We’re still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede. – Richard Ben Cramer
At the ballet, you really feel like you’re in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. – Robert Caro
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice. – Pat Roberts
All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O’Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don’t have that kind of wit and genius. We don’t do that. We sit down and have some accidents. – Padgett Powell
There’s very few people – like Shakespeare – who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there’s a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. – Oscar Isaac
You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You’ve heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it. – Rush Limbaugh
Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and Yankee ingenuity will do the rest. – Robert Zubrin
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they’re not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. – Robert Reich
Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would be reading from hand-copied scrolls. – Rodney Stark
Your first hit in the majors – that’s tops. It means you’re on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest. – Rod Carew
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest – then preserved. – Robert Mapplethorpe
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn’t it? It’s an empty kind of thing. – Richard O’Brien
We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote ‘Let the Rest of the World Go By.’ – Tiny Tim
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world. – Satish Kumar
California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw. – Stuart Rothenberg
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals – beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. – Willard Gaylin
‘Monty Python’ and ‘The Simpsons’ have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. – Scott Adsit
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. – Thomas de Quincey
I’m interested in all kinds of sports. I’ll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I’ll come back to the rest of the paper. – Steve Kroft
When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this. – Townsend Harris
