Calvin Trillin Quotes

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Calvin Trillin

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Even to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that stop migration to cities, road networks for better connectivity, and a sense of security get people to vote for you.

Jitin Prasada

PeopleRoadProblemsFaceBetter

The government generally is just too top-heavy.

John McAfee

GovernmentJustTooGenerally

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Amy Grant

LifeMarriageEyeMy LifeTalking

When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

Soulja Boy

LoveFutureTechnologySocial Media

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

Spoken Reasons

FunnyChildGrowing UpQuietGrowing

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.

Joseph C. Lincoln

LifeLoveWomenSeaCityTrue

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.

Cokie Roberts

GoodFlowersThinkMediaYouKnow

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Art Buchwald

AmericanBadNervousTalkLiver

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

William John Wills

RidePracticeMeFindRidingLittle

Judaism is my home. Judaism is super important to me, in death and in life.

Sheryl Sandberg

LifeHomeDeathMeImportantSuper

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Thomas Griffith

NewsNewAbandonedInterestSome

In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.

Rick Perlstein

MenFishingWorldHouseBedroom

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