Jonathan Raban Quotes

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban

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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- World
- Long
- Science
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Carlisle Floyd
- America
- Artist
- Talent
When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

Tasha Smith
- World
- Men
- Community
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

Samantha Power
- Security
- Reputation
Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

Larry Brown
- School
- Kids
- Worship
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Vidal Sassoon
- Good
- Important
- Kids