Jim Webb Quotes

When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.

Jim Webb

Quotes to Explore

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Sade Adu
- People
- Time
- Shy
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Iris Murdoch
- Important
- Bad
- Review
I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

M. J. Rose
- Time
- Reading
- Child
What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

Wadah Khanfar
- People
- Choices
- Media
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

Yotam Ottolenghi
- British
- Vegetable
- Potato
Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

G. W. Bailey
- Like
- Enjoy
- Really