Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Marilyn vos Savant

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Marilyn vos Savant

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Merle Shain

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

Mary Ann Shaffer

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

Matt Taibbi

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

Matt Taibbi

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Matt Taibbi

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Matt Taibbi

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

Matt Taibbi

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Matt Taibbi

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Matt Taibbi

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Murray Walker

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.

Murray Walker

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

Murray Walker