Terry Teachout Quotes

I can remember - barely - when Elton John was still a good songwriter, or at least capable of writing good songs.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

GoodWritingRememberI CanCapable

I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.

Jesmyn Ward

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It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving.

John David Washington

WomenMenPoliceJobColorServing

I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways.

Melissa McCarthy

WorkWantClothingDifferentPiece

Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs.

Steve Bannon

FactsOpinionsGetShares

I think children learn through their parents.

Sridevi

ChildrenParentsThinkLearnThrough

The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.

Steven Biko

PeopleSocietyBlackValuesWhite

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

Siri Hustvedt

FamilyNatureHappinessFunMe

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

WarMoreOutSufferBreakJapan

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Robert E. Howard

MenKnowMoreWithoutBecauseSplit

Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going to be making a different film, then that's not gonna work.

Michael Sheen

WorkThinkYouSometimesMeanSee

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.

Dionne Bromfield

LoveYoungFreshCoutureReally

I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker.

DMX

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