Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Iain Banks

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Lauren DeStefano

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

Stephen Bayley

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Herb Caen

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Matt Lauer

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

Alan Coren

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

Caitlin Moran

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

Graydon Carter

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

Clara Barton

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver

'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

Carine Roitfeld

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Diane Wakoski

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

Ed Bradley

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

Barton Gellman

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

Bill Kurtis

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Clara Barton

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues - or by almost anybody. And that is, we're running out of everything.

Jeremy Grantham

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Jim Bishop

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

John Donne