Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

Garry Wills

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.

Harry Johnston

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

Jon Meacham

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

Jon Meacham

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

James Harvey Robinson

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

James Harvey Robinson

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Jerry Saltz

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Jerry Saltz

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Jerry Saltz

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

John Hanning Speke

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Robert Seeley

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Jack Vance

The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

Dan Buettner

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Dan Buettner

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

Dan Buettner

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

Dan Buettner

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

David Douglas

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

David Herbert Donald

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

David Herbert Donald

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

Drew Gilpin Faust