Quotes of: Wright Keyword

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Gilbert Highet

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Joe Eszterhas

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

John George Nicolay

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

Kevin Spacey

I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

Lindsay Lohan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

Shirley Temple

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

Alan Cumming

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Algernon Sidney

A person's bathroom, I believe, is the only three-dimensional expression of their soul.

Paul Rudnick

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Shirley Conran

People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

Vikas Swarup

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

Vikas Swarup

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

Vikas Swarup

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

W.J. Cameron

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

Warren Farrell

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

Warren Farrell

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Walter Kirn

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Walter Kirn

We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

William McDonough

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Willis Polk