Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

'The Guardian,' with its deep journalistic traditions, is careful about context and explanation. It sees itself as a gatekeeper, and it worries about consequences.

Graydon Carter

'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

Graydon Carter

I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

Graydon Carter

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.

Graydon Carter

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries' appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Christopher Caldwell

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Chuck Eddy

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Charles Krauthammer

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Charles Krauthammer

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

Charles Kuralt

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

Christopher Koch

I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Chuck Klosterman

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Charles de Lint

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Charles Godfrey Leland

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

Caitlin Moran

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Charles C. Mann

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Charles Edward Montague

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.

Christopher Monckton

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

Christopher Monckton