William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

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• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Man
  • Learn
  • Intelligent

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Art
  • Judge
  • Creative

• Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Marriage
  • Equal

• You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Work
  • Want
  • Too Much

• No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Power
  • Today
  • Church

• It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Life
  • Career

• Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • History
  • Cactus

• We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Action

• Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland
  • Listening

• The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Stop

• I am terribly saddened to learn of the passing of Harry Dalton. He was one of the great general managers of our generation. I was fortunate to have him serve as general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers from 1978 through 1991.

  

  Bud Selig
  • Great

• Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Love
  • Scripture

• He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. “I think I’m more Batman,” he said. “You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler.” “Geek.” His smile widened. “You say the nicest things. Haven’t you heard? Geeks run the world now.” -BLACK DAWN

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • Black
  • Smile

• I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Kind
  • Wonder

• A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Design
  • Remedy
  • Prevents

• Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Study
  • Cancer
  • Insight

• Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

  

  Plato
  • True
  • Nothing
  • Prefer

• Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Insight
  • Halfway
  • Columns