Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

P. J. O'Rourke

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

P. J. O'Rourke

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

Sebastian Coe

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Sheri S. Tepper

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Sarah Vowell

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

Stella Young

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Calvin Trillin

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

John Avlon

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

James Surowiecki

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

Tina Brown

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

William Henry Hudson

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Herb Caen

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Jhonen Vasquez

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Matt Lauer

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

Aaron Allston

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

Alan Coren