Quotes of: George-w Keyword

Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

Jack Kilby

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

Jill Lepore

A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Jill Lepore

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

Jill Lepore

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Jill Lepore

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Jill Lepore

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

Jill Lepore

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

Jill Lepore

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Jill Lepore

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

Jill Lepore

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Martha Beck

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

Ben Katchor

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

Donald McKay

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

Garrett Hardin

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

Fergie

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Joe Jonas

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

Mary-Kate Olsen

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Steven Spielberg

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

John Henrik Clarke

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

John Lewis Gaddis