Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Harry Mathews

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Jennifer Armintrout

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

J. B. Priestley

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch

I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

P. J. O'Rourke

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Sarah Vowell

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

Tea Obreht

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

William Greider

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

Whittaker Chambers

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Antony Beevor

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Caitlin Flanagan

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Charles C. Mann

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

Dan Rather

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.

Julian Assange

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

Jane Leavy