Quotes of: Astute Keyword

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if s...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman’s point of view.” To such demands, one can only say “Go away and don’t be silly. You migh...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

Lawrence Schiller

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s del...

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

Martin Fry

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

Steven Spielberg

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

John Heywood

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

Letters at 3am

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

William Feather

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

Carol Burnett

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of . They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and f...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

Matt Groening

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Henry Rollins

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should s...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.

Robert Dallek

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

Greg Behrendt