Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George Packer

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Grantland Rice

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Grantland Rice

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Gail Sheehy

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

Gail Sheehy

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Gail Sheehy

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Gail Sheehy

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Gail Sheehy

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

Gary Shteyngart

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow

Gladys Bronwyn Stern

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

George Will

Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

Harsha Bhogle

I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

Heather Brooke

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Herb Caen

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Herbert Croly

In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.

Howie Carr

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Herbert Gold

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

Hari Kunzru

There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

Hari Kunzru

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Harry Mathews