Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Peter Jennings

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Russell Baker

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

Twyla Tharp

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Bill Moyers

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

James Surowiecki

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

Paul Reiser

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

David James Duncan

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Helen Rowland

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

Roger Mudd

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

Sydney Schanberg

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

Tina Brown

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Tavis Smiley

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Susan Faludi

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

Ann Hood

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

Brad Meltzer

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dan Savage