George Will Quotes
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
Quotes to Explore
-
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
-
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
-
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
-
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
-
You can stroke people with words.
-
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
-
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
-
We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
-
Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
-
It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
-
The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.
-
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
-
Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.
-
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
-
Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
-
Fair use is not in the law.
-
My whole thing is I’m not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization . . .I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.
-
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
-
For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
-
When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
-
The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.
-
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
