Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Rick Bragg

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Sydney J. Harris

I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

Thomas Mallon

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Paul Eldridge

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

Robert T. Bakker

If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

Sue Johanson

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

Sara Paretsky

The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s.

Sara Sheridan

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Sara Sheridan

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

Stella Young

Glenn Beck is Rush redux - Limbaugh with liposuction, partying like it's still 1993.

Tina Brown

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

Shana Alexander

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Mike Royko

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Anna Katharine Green

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Ferdinand Mount

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

John O'Donohue

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Joseph Sobran

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

P. J. O'Rourke

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Murray Kempton

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Renee Vivien