Fails Quotes


[The report] says that the president's tax cut fails to give a single dime in tax relief to 12 million families with 24 million children. - Richard Gephardt



[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails. - Susan Sontag



[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism. - R Z Sheppard



[I'm In Charge. Chelsea manager Geoff Hurst puts eight players on the transfer list. He also allows Peter Osgood to leave the club after Ossie fails to appear for training.] He phoned and asked for his cards to be sent to his home... Although I'm only a caretaker, I'm acting as I said I would as if I'm in charge for ten years. - Geoff Hurst



[But oh, the talk was tough.] If Saddam refuses to accept full access for U.N. inspectors... we are prepared to use military force... If diplomacy fails, we will deliver a serious blow. - Madeleine Albright



... it's not as cut and dried a thing, and I think New Delhi sometimes, fails to understand how widespread is American support, which runs across both parties, for the NPT. - Robert Hathaway



*holding a hand to his face as he steps out in front of a car* I...I..I am not ORAAAAAAAAAAANGE. *falls and fails* - Jeremiah Gottwald



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