Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Joe Haldeman

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

Jackie Kennedy

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

Jodi Kantor

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Joe Klein

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

Julie Kagawa

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

Jane Leavy

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

John Leo

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Jonah Lehrer

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Jonah Lehrer

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.

John Amery

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

James Wolcott

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

Karen Abbott

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

Carine Roitfeld

I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

Carine Roitfeld

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

Carine Roitfeld

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

Carine Roitfeld

There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

Carine Roitfeld

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Octavia E. Butler

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

Lynne Truss