Michael Dirda Quotes

Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

Michael Dirda

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I am very tenacious.

Jenny Craig

I AmTenaciousVeryAm

Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

Jens Voigt

ThoughtCareerGoWayFirstFinish

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

John Muir

SocietySoftStormsMustHowThose

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

Matthew Walker

HealthSleepCompromiseSlowFail

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

Skeet Ulrich

SeenBeenEverybodyEverybody Else

Maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think my view of humanity has got steadily sunnier since I was 15. I have a higher opinion of politicians, for instance, than I did when I first moved to Washington.

Tucker Carlson

MyselfOpinionThinkViewHumanity

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

Mike Gallagher

StandDemocratsDissentCannotFact

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

Diego Maradona

GodTimeUsComeHeGuess

My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.

Debra Stephenson

I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run.

Corey Hawkins

LieYouGymGoRunGoing

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

Anthony Marra

GovernmentJournalismLinePropaganda

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.

Artur Davis

LightVotingDeadNamesOutRights

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