Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.

William Greider

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

William Greider

If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.

Wadah Khanfar

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Whitley Strieber

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

William Safire

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

William Safire

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Wilfrid Sheed

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

William Safire

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Walter Wager

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Zia Haider Rahman

Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.

Zia Haider Rahman

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

Adam Rapp

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

Charles Krauthammer

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Cheryl Strayed

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

Dan Rather

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

Francine Rivers

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Goldwin Smith

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

Jill Abramson

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Jean Hanff Korelitz