Dorothy Thompson Quotes

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

Dorothy Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1893 - January 30, 1961

Topics

WorkSchoolPeopleBackGoSee

I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.

Jim Harrison

LifeFunStartOutdoorsYouDark

Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.

Jeremy Irons

WorkWiseBetterLookDonePraise

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.

Andrew Sean Greer

TimeJobPoetryMeWritingThink

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

Matthew McConaughey

HurtYouGunsReallyCameras

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Steve Martin

ArtMeMysteryWayFunction

As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.

Mike McCue

PeopleFreeYouWillRightPay

Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.

Jason Pierre-Paul

WorkBusinessFootballFreeGame

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Don Dokken

MindRockListenWriteFreshHonest

In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.

Dennis C. Blair

ReachNationDestructionCriminal

If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.

Cornelia Parker

ArtSchoolYouMoreCutGoing

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.

Colson Whitehead

WordsAppreciateFindWriteHard

I don't know about England so much, but in Germany and some of these other countries, the pink was something that they liked. For those kids, the pink and black and the whole look with the sunglasses and the leather jacket was the right kind of hero they could get behind, and I think that really set me apart from everyone else.

Bret Hart

HeroMeSunglassesPinkBlackThink

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