Conrad Black Quotes

It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

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• Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligence
  • Dry

• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Long
  • Man

• All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Different
  • Country

• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.

  

  Ed Victor
  • People
  • Life
  • Brim

• It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Bible

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• Man knows so much and does so little.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Man
  • Intelligence
  • Little

• When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

  

  Larry Bird
  • School
  • Think
  • Thought

• Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Art
  • Subject
  • Idealism

• Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Summer

• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Truth
  • Political

• I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Dog
  • Sick

• If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

  

  John Tesh
  • Want
  • Risk
  • Taking

• Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.

  

  Anita Renfroe
  • Relationship
  • Satisfaction
  • Marriages

• Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • People
  • Thoughts

• Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Life
  • Family
  • Choices

• It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

  

  Conrad Black