Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

P. J. O'Rourke

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

Rebekah Brooks

I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

Robert Gottlieb

No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.

Robert Gottlieb

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

Sue Johanson

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

Sue Monk Kidd

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Sara Sheridan

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Tina Brown

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Timothy Noah

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

Lynn Abbey

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on.

Lynne Truss

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

Michael Scheuer

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Matt Taibbi

I don't really do a big Saturday supper. I prefer entertaining in the daytime.

Nicholas Haslam

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

Lynne Cheney

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Frank Chodorov

The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

Wadah Khanfar

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

Lucy Stone