Quotes of: George-w Keyword

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

Damon Lindelof

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Cyril Cusack

I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.

John Lewis Gaddis

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

James Buchan

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Kevin Powers

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

N. Scott Momaday

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

Cat Deeley

I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm like, 'Let's date for three years' - which is just ridiculous.

Norman Reedus

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

Allen Klein

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

Albert Bushnell Hart

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

Bernard Berenson

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Julie Christie

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

Rob Lowe

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

Regis Philbin

Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.

Steve McQueen