George Will Quotes

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

George Will

• Thinking
• Baseball
• Oxymoron

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Years
  • Something
  • Tried

• My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Passion

• Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Together
  • Smart
  • Witty

• No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand
  • Wise

• I was always interested in architecture, but the editors of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper wanted people waving with their arms.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • People
  • Architecture

• It's always nice to have somebody on your side.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Nice

• I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Math

• These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

  

  Kevin Ayers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Rest

• The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • People
  • God
  • American

• Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

  

  Joe Green
  • Christmas

• When one must, one can.

  

  Charlotte Whitton

• 'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

  

  Arthur Darvill
  • Up

• I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

  

  Annette Bening

• If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Thinking
  • Concentrate

• In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because we know that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voices coming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle for less than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomers and their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumer culture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriage that is not meeting our current emotional needs.

  

  William J Doherty
  • Thinking
  • Powerful
  • Emotional

• I have zero strategy for my career - like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Career

• DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Work
  • Wind
  • Appreciate

• For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Respect
  • Question
  • Rotten Places

• Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

  

  George Will
  • Thinking
  • Baseball
  • Oxymoron