Mark Steyn Quotes

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Home
  • May
  • You

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  

  Tacitus
  • Character
  • Best
  • Most

• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Baby

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Up
  • Past
  • Individual

• When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels. So one year, I was reading Tove Jansson, and the next year, I was reading Stephen King.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Children
  • Reading
  • King

• I entered music at a poppy level.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Music

• When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.

  

  Louis Garrel
  • Style
  • Rap

• It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • War
  • Progress
  • Prosperity