James Wolcott Quotes

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

James Wolcott

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Baking

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Nice
  • Party
  • Cool

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Learn

• If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Never
  • Capable
  • Cricket

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Say

• Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Food
  • Roses

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Outcomes

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Money

• We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.

  

  Alan Young

• The typographic logic created 'the outsider,' the alienated mass, as the type of integral, that is, intuitive and irrational, man. (p. 241)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Logic

• Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Happiness
  • Illusion
  • Average

• I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate, I'm not sure which is correct - habit of editing while I'm writing which everyone tells me that I shouldn't do that. But that's just the way I write and I think it's important to stay true to your own writing style and momentum.

  

  Nami Mun
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Writing

• How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe.

  

  John Aubrey

• Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

  

  James Wolcott
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Dark