Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

Calvin Trillin

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

Helen Rowland

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

H. Allen Smith

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Hugh Sidey

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

Isaac Goldberg

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Ida B. Wells

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

James Agate

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

James Agate

I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

Jill Abramson

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

Jayson Blair

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

Jayson Blair

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Jimmy Breslin

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

Julie Burchill

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Jim Bishop

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

Jack L. Chalker

I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

Jack L. Chalker

Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.

Jessica Cutler

My own parents loved each other very much.

Jilly Cooper

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Jilly Cooper

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

Jilly Cooper

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Jilly Cooper