George Packer Quotes
My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.
Quotes to Explore
-
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
-
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
-
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
-
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
-
I've had many ideas come from clients.
-
What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
-
I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
-
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
-
You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
-
My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
-
I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
-
I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
-
Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
-
The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
-
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
-
When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
-
I am an inventor of music.
-
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
-
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
-
VR should be more emotionally involving, but that doesn't happen automatically by just taking a VR camera and sticking it onto what would be a traditionally blocked scene for 2D.
-
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
-
Like he's been saying all week, we're here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we're prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.
-
My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.
