Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

Bethany McLean

He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added.

Brandon Mull

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Brenda Ueland

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Binyavanga Wainaina

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

Brock Yates

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

Carol Anshaw

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Anshaw

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

Chris Bohjalian

I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

Candy Crowley

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Claire Cameron

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Giles Foden

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

Giles Foden

And you still haven't answered any of my one-hundred ten questions, or my follow ups.

Greg Farshtey

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Garet Garrett

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

George Monbiot

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

George Monbiot

Seorang novelis sebaiknya menciptakan “sebuah wilayah di mana tak seorang pun memiliki kebenaran...tapi di mana setiap orang punya hak untuk dimengerti" (Caping 3, h. 151)

Goenawan Mohamad

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Naylor

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

Gloria Naylor