George Will Quotes

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • High

• Thirteen years I took on this last book.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Book
  • Years
  • Last

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Good
  • Think
  • Perfect

• I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Now

• The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions agst. danger real or pretended from abroad.

  

  James Madison
  • Real
  • Home
  • Truth

• Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Singing

• I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

  

  Alan Rudolph

• I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

  

  Andre Balazs
  • Good
  • Business
  • True

• Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

  

  Eric Alterman
  • Children
  • American
  • Poverty

• I'm not a stand-up comedian; I'm not a satirist.

  

  James Corden
  • Up

• Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Life
  • Family
  • Art

• I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Bad

• I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

  

  Bo Gritz
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Missing

• I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Success
  • Small
  • Hand

• No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

  

  Francine Prose
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Learned

• Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

  

  George Will
  • Reading
  • Victim
  • Rhetoric