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I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates. — Stacy Schiff

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices. — Peter Schiff

Yet what difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same. - ARISTOTLE — Stacy Schiff

The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself. — Stacy Schiff

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists]. — Adam Schiff

The only way to buy more is to produce more. — Peter Schiff

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person. — Stacy Schiff

Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile; — Stacy Schiff

published, Beverly minister John Hale had produced — Stacy Schiff

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year. — Stacy Schiff

Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama. — Peter Schiff

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians. — Adam Schiff

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation. — Adam Schiff

Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs? — Stacy Schiff

Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter. — Stacy Schiff

It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included. — Stacy Schiff

Good thing you're not writing the press release. — Adam Schiff

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity. — Stacy Schiff

He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be. — Stacy Schiff

There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit. — Peter Schiff

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war. — Adam Schiff

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. — Stacy Schiff

I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that. — Richard Schiff

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors. — Richard Schiff

Puberty," it has been said, "is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness. — Stacy Schiff

The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points. — Peter Schiff

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch. — Richard Schiff

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system. — Adam Schiff

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens. — Stacy Schiff

History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well. — Stacy Schiff

If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less,
you must give them less to spend. — Irwin Schiff

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers. — Stacy Schiff

For all its erudition, Cleopatra's Egypt produced no fine historian. — Stacy Schiff

The real story of Detroit [ ... ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. — Peter Schiff

The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars — Peter Schiff

We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything. - ANTON CHEKHOV — Stacy Schiff

Motherhood is always an act of courage. — Stacy Schiff

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman. — Stacy Schiff

You could not really bargain away your soul before it was established that you had one. — Stacy Schiff

Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke. — Peter Schiff

The Ptolemaic system has been compared to that of Soviet Russia; it stands among the most closely controlled economies in history. — Stacy Schiff

I'm concerned the clock is ticking, and the danger to the American people is still very present. — Adam Schiff

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops. — Adam Schiff

Dioscorides, an expert on medicinal plants, had ample material on which to base a pioneering treatise on bubonic plague. — Stacy Schiff

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened. — Peter Schiff

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am. — Richard Schiff

The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That's good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying. — Adam Schiff

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. — Bradley Whitford

Diadem, Cleopatra took part throughout the trip in religious — Stacy Schiff

Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away. — Peter Schiff

If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it. — Peter D. Schiff

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street. — Peter Schiff

The way Steven Spielberg sees the world has become the way the world is communicated back to us every day. — Stephen Schiff

I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that. — Stacy Schiff

Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer. — Stacy Schiff

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community. — Adam Schiff

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose. — Peter Schiff

When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first. — Mark Schiff

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. — Adam Schiff

Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly. — Stacy Schiff

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights. — Jacob Schiff

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. — Richard Schiff

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere. — Adam Schiff

Everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy. — Stacy Schiff

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's not true. — Peter Schiff

They should let my son be Federal Reserve chairman. At least he'll play with his toys and not ruin the economy. — Peter D. Schiff

Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved. — Stacy Schiff

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. — Adam Schiff

With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century. — Stacy Schiff

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands. — Stacy Schiff

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. — Peter Schiff

It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years. — Adam Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted. — Richard Schiff

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.' — Stacy Schiff

Parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences. — Stacy Schiff

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book. — Stacy Schiff

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent — Irwin Schiff

In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy. — Stacy Schiff

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents! — Stacy Schiff

Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir. — Stacy Schiff

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s. — Peter Schiff

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. — Stacy Schiff

Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions. — Peter D. Schiff

You kill yourself when you hate. It's the worst disease in the world. — William Schiff

We should be worried about protecting the homeland. I think that policy is changing, should change and will change. — Adam Schiff

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam. — Adam Schiff

Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble. — Peter Schiff

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure. — Richard Schiff

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched. — Stacy Schiff

There was good reason why Cleopatra's subjects viewed time as a coil of endless repetitions. — Stacy Schiff

When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil. — Stacy Schiff

It is notable that when she is not condemned for being too bold and masculine, Cleopatra is taken to task for being unduly frail and feminine. — Stacy Schiff

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. — Adam Schiff

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time. — Stacy Schiff

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job. — Peter Schiff

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! — Peter Schiff

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends. — Adam Schiff

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered. — Stacy Schiff

You're worth what you're worth — Peter Schiff