William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

William Lewis Safir

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Challenge

• Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Treat

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Years
  • Old
  • Gymnastics

• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Years
  • Questions
  • Ask

• If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Look
  • Ask

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Progress

• Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Money
  • Me
  • Judge

• An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Purpose
  • Fishing
  • Lake

• Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • God
  • Man
  • Free

• I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • You
  • Woman
  • Design

• I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Good
  • Love
  • Support

• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

  

  Rumi
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Talking

• I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine.

  

  Adam Schein
  • Show
  • Talking
  • Listeners

• I pretended to be interested in their secret undertaking, but in fact I was very sorry about it. Although the two siblings had involved me by choosing me as their confidant, it was still an experience that I could enter only as witness: on that path Lila would do great things by herself, I was excluded. But above all, how, after our intense conversations about love and poetry, could she walk me to the door, as she was doing, far more absorbed in the atmosphere of excitement around a shoe?...What did I care about shoes. I still had, in my mind's eye, the most secret stages of that affair of violated trust, passion, poetry that became a book, and it was as if she and I had read a novel together, as if we had seen, there in the back of the shop and not in the parish hall on Sunday, a dramatic film.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Experience
  • Film
  • Secret

• It means I don't have much depth of vision.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Vision
  • Depth

• What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Literature
  • Philosophic
  • Horizons

• I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Talking
  • Novel
  • Professors