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Mary McCarthy Quotes

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

Mary McCarthy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1912 - October 25, 1989

Topics

Character Eyes Haircut American Bad

The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight.

Steven Levy

Humble Look Early iPhone Spotlight

Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.

Steve Tisch

Football Now Used Daughters Sons

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Tommy Douglas

Bird Walk Ocean Man Fly Fish

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

Roger Bannister

Always Hold British Been Mile Had

Instagram influencers project a specific, highly crafted image of perfection - one that is largely white, thin, and psychologically Zen. Critics argue that this boom, in turn, has helped fuel excessive self-promotion in which we post about only the good moments rather than reality - essentially, a distorted echo chamber.

Mary Pilon

Good Perfection Reality Moments Turn

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

Michael Reagan

Me Sometimes Little Knee His Dad

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Business Progress Will Economy Port

People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.

Jason Blum

Love Community Support People Help

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

Douglas Alexander

Clarity Defeat Threat Approach Scale

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Clifford Odets

Life Dollar Bills Printed

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.

Chuck Pagano

End Know Sleeping Office Up Sofa

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.

Ali Smith

World Saying Name Stand You Rome