Emmett Tyrrell Quotes

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

Emmett Tyrrell

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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Man
  • Fact
  • Hunter

• I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Want
  • Yourself

• I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Fortune

• If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • May
  • Effort
  • Name

• There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Wisdom
  • Listening
  • Romantic

• Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

  

  Tacitus
  • Power
  • Hate
  • Next

• Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Truth
  • Interesting
  • Picture

• A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Characters
  • Heroes
  • Lot

• Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • High
  • Energy

• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Growth
  • Security
  • Surrender

• Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Opinion
  • Famous
  • Intuition

• Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Women
  • Trying

• I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Political
  • Progress

• Bill Clinton fascinates me because, at the time, it seemed like his shenanigans and the people after him were the biggest political stories you could ever imagine. I remember when the 'Starr Report' was published in the newspaper, all of us were reading it in the high-school cafeteria, and a dean started taking the newspapers away from us.

  

  John Mulaney
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

  

  Emmett Tyrrell
  • Political
  • Democratic Party
  • Stampede