Tom Shales Quotes

I always thought I'd buy my mother a house if I ever became successful - a big, beautiful house on the nicest street in town. It didn't exactly work out that way. I was still borrowing money from her in my 40s.

Tom Shales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 3, 1948

Topics

WorkMotherBeautifulMoneyThought

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Andre Malraux

BusinessNothingMoreServeCommand

I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

EarthKnowHumanSensitiveMost

I'm very grateful that I've had the opportunities I've had.

Amy Purdy

GratefulOpportunitiesVeryHad

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Steve Earle

MyselfObstaclesThinkAlwaysReally

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

Steven Pinker

WorldAccomplishmentEnlightenment

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

RuPaul

PeopleStupidEatingVotingLook

I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.

Mike McCarthy

SuccessChallengeFootballThinkYou

The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands.

Molly Ivins

MoneyDanceHandsWillHimBig

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Michael Kinsley

MarriageUncleLatePoliticiansDays

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

Louie Gohmert

PeopleEvilYouHouseGoShe

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

Jonny Greenwood

DayPeopleMindMeGreenBetter

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

Donovan Bailey

CarWalkManDriveYouBig

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