Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Fred W. Friendly

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Glenn Beck

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Henry Rollins

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

Lauren DeStefano

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

Matt Groening

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Mark Ruffalo

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Quintilian

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

Annie Jacobsen

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

Dani Shapiro

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

Graydon Carter

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

Gail Collins

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

Blaize Clement

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Jeff Goodell

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

Charles Krauthammer

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

Dan Rather

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

Jill Abramson

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

Jessica Savitch