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Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .
I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
I do get lots of links to advance screeners, which helps, but there's no way I could do my job without the full-on cable subscription.
To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.
I don`t think Enrique Pena Nieto expected [visit]. I don`t think anybody expected it to be so quick, the response [like Donald Trump].
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.
I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. `Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in the family.
Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.
being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
Flom had the same experience...He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.
My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him.
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.
Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.
I think the global markets will probably be selling off with a [Donald] Trump presidency because he has promised to re-do trade deals.
My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.
When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio producer after World War II.
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.
In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.
The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
LSU fans have descended upon Dallas and reminded us of this truth: when it comes to partying, they're the pros and we're all amateurs.
Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.
What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.