Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

Simon Hoggart

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

Simon Hoggart

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

Sue Monk Kidd

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

Sue Monk Kidd

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Sam Levenson

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.

Sarah Lacy

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

Sarah Lacy

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

Sam Levenson

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

Suzy Menkes

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

Suzy Menkes

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Susie Orbach

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

Susie Orbach

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.

Susie Orbach

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Sara Paretsky

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

Sara Paretsky

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

Sharon Kay Penman

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Simon Raven

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

Stephen Rodrick

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

Stephen Rodrick