William Safire Quotes

When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'

William Safire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009

Topics

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Dating is... weird.

Jennifer Coolidge

DatingWeird

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

MyselfResearchThinkingMoreHuman

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

Meg Tilly

EyesPeopleYouLookFeelingMeet

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

Matthew Perry

LifeMy LifeSelf-CenteredWhereToo

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

Jeff Bridges

CompassionPainYouIntimacyLead

Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.

Rudy Giuliani

MoneyBalanceNew YorkPeopleCity

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.

Mary Beard

HistorySpeakThinkSayTalkOut

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

Mary E. Pearson

RoomTortureLegMedievalPlanes

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Mike Huckabee

NatureStoryNeverBankingSomething

Now I'm steeped in this world, I keep thinking going to the theatre every week is normal, but there's a whole world of people who don't go at all. I wrote 'Chewing Gum Dreams' for them - I'd love them to come.

Michaela Coel

LoveDreamsPeopleTheatreWorldGo

Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.

David Shields

CityWayJewishSeattleHereBeen

I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne.

Christina Hendricks

LoveWaterRoseEggWhiteSometimes

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