Gail Collins Quotes
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
-
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
-
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
-
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
-
Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
-
I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
-
To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
-
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
-
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
-
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
-
The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
-
Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
-
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
-
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
-
I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side.
-
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
-
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
-
I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
-
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
