Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

Robert Gottlieb

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

Rose George

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

Shelby Foote

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

Seth MacFarlane

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

Scott Turow

You can get an interview with anyone overseas on the basis of being part of 'Newsweek.' It still has a great deal of impact.

Tina Brown

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

Tony D'Souza

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

William Allen White

When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

Amy Childs

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Andrew Greeley

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Ben Bradlee

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

Ben Bradlee

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

Barton Gellman

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

Deborah Harkness

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Doug Larson

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

Deborah Norville

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Ellen Goodman