"Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #America Quotes

“New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.”
“Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.”
“Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.”

Source : Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.99, Chronicle Books
“I always say the first sign of a good idea is a lot of people not believing in it. I can tell you this right now, if you have an idea that makes complete logical sense and people donâ€™t believe in it, then you probably have a brilliant idea.”
“The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).”
“The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"”
“Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.”

Source : "'Hot Guy of the Week': American Idol's Blake Lewis". US Weekly, May 21, 2007.
“I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.”

You may also like:

Christopher Guest
Baron Haden-Guest
Frederic Bastiat
Economist
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Henry Beard
Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
Jann Wenner
Publisher
Thomas Gray
Poet
Tony Hendra
Writer
William O. Douglas
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States