Terry Southern Quotes

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Terry Southern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 1, 1924 - October 29, 1995

Topics

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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Jim Doyle

Just BecauseWashingtonFailKids

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

EducationMyselfSacrificeBrother

I deal with gay and black conservatives who don't want to be called Uncle Toms of their politically correct Marxist multi-cultural unit structure. And they come to me saying, 'What can I do?' And I say, 'Lay low.'

Andrew Breitbart

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America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.

John Paul DeJoria

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I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

John Mayer

NightFeelDownSettleTalkShow

On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

John Witherspoon

TrustMenWishChooseConversation

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

TogetherPainSleepMeThoughtDark

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

Milo Ventimiglia

Tough TimesImaginationMeIsolation

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

Pete Cashmore

ExecutionCompanyShapesOffYour

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

Peter York

OpportunityLostNeverColourRoom

There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think the whole idea of identity as something that is something of a straitjacket. That most of us like to think of as natural and innate. That we just find and go, 'Yeah, that's who I am.'

Todd Haynes

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