Gore Vidal Quotes

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Topics

GoodIgnorancePoliceWarWorldOut

Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.

Jhonen Vasquez

AgeLookingDoingDownKindMy Own

I would have only doubted myself if I was really attached to the result of what I was doing, but I was always doing it and will always do it for the love of making songs, and if you liked it you liked it, if you didn't, you didn't. It was always pure and always will be pure.

Russ

LoveMyselfDoingResultYouWill

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Russell Banks

EarlyYearsEightiesTaughtNYU

Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another's perspective.

Maryanne Wolf

PerspectiveReadingThinkingThought

It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.

Mika

HateMenClothesYouFindWant

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

Luke James

MotherMeBabyDriveThinkHunger

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.

Jonathan Ive

SimplicityYouGoTruePointGoing

Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the voters.

Coretta Scott King

WhereMajorityPollsContinueMade

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch

MenWiseOpinionWise MenHumanErr

It's important to enjoy who you are and to appreciate things around you.

Sean Bean

AppreciateEnjoyYouImportantWho

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.

Richard Burr

ThinkSecurityWayChangedTerror

Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.

Mark Billingham

GoodSnowStrongLandscapeYouLook

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