Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

All We Know of Love

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

John Adams

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

John Adams

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Journey Through Europe

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

The Rape of Nanking

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Screening History

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The Story of My Life

Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Measure for Measure

I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings.

Maybe Someday

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

The Omnibus of Crime

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

The Lady Elizabeth

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

The Life of Andrew Jackson

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Literature and Revolution

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Memoirs of Cleopatra

Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance.

The Silver Linings Playbook

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting