Quotes About Author

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

Will Ferguson

If I could interview that horse, Walter mused, I'd know the boy a whole lot better.

did. They had class at the same time in the

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.

But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written.

We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we'd both loved her 2003 novel The Namesake and her first book of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, which had won the Pulitzer in 1999.