Quotes of: Orwell Keyword

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

Howie Carr

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.

John Searles

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

Megan Abbott

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

Paul Hawken

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

P. J. O'Rourke

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Sylvia Browne

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.

Stella Young

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

Tom Shales

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Charlie Rose

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” ― George Orwell, 1984.

1984

When we change the way we communicate, we change society

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

[Dieu:] Est-ce vraiment moi qui ai inventé l'amour, ou est-ce l'amour qui m'a inventé?

Sept jours pour une éternité...

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Metaphysics

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Selected Works

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Physics

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Politics

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

Caitlin Flanagan

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

Graydon Carter