Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

John Hodgman

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Jonathan Kozol

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Jonathan Kozol

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Jonathan Kozol

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Jill Lepore

I take the NASA physical every year.

Jim Lovell

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

John Lukacs

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Kate Fox

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Herman Kahn

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.

Christian Louboutin

I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

Marco Arment

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Douglas William Jerrold

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Garrison Keillor

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

Marianne Williamson

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

Robert Dallek

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

Richard Greenberg

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

Susie Bright