More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, i...
The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by 'better' such things as more capable in negotiation, more imaginative in executive skil...
. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and other latter-day cabalists will have numbers to ...
This is the lesson of all great television commercials: They provide a slogan, a symbol or a focus that creates for viewers a comprehensive and compelling image of themselves. In the shift from party politics to television politics, the same goal is ...
A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go b...
Pull yourself together, Detective. You're embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you're embarrassing me." "They're going to do it outside. In public." "So the fuck what?" "Public," Peabody said, head still between her knees. "You're being honored ...
For in today’s generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it’s impossible.
It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.
The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.
