George Will Quotes

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • English

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • World
  • Music
  • Community

• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
  • Competitive
  • Striving

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Come
  • Relief
  • Appearances

• You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Work
  • High
  • Night

• I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Life
  • Myself
  • I Can

• I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Difficult
  • More
  • Little

• I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Literature

• I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Think
  • Control
  • I Think

• That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Past
  • Focus

• I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Up
  • World
  • Society

• Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Society
  • Education
  • Goal

• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Administration

• The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
  • Important
  • Job

• Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

  

  George Will
  • Society
  • Hyperbole
  • Atrophy