Clymer Quotes

#1. Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

Adam Clymer

#2. Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

Ben Clymer

#3. Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the Prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#4. I am a planet orbiting my sun," He whispered, forcing me to step closer to hear him. "I am only Mathias.

Shari Richardson

#5. To learn is to change.

George Leonard

#6. There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

Adam Clymer

#7. Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).

Ben Clymer

#8. Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

George Clymer

#9. Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.

Shunryu Suzuki

#10. The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

Bill Vaughan

#11. When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

Adam Clymer

#12. Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

Ben Clymer

#13. A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

George Clymer

#14. I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

Robin S. Sharma

#15. Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians ... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Adam Clymer

#16. I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

Victoria Beckham

#17. I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

Robert Barry

#18. I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

Adam Clymer

#19. No," he says. "You should have. Just go speak to her. I need to take a walk.

Tarryn Fisher

#20. There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times.

George W. Bush

#21. Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

Ben Clymer

#22. Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Adam Clymer

#23. Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

Adam Clymer

#24. After years of self deprecating behavior, I've never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there's nothing special about me.

Brynna Gabrielson

#25. When I let some girl take me in her mouth I think this is what Jesus must feel like during communion.

Zach Braff

#26. Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

Adam Clymer

#27. Queers make the best monks.

Victor J. Banis

#28. The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#29. I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

Kelly Ripa

#30. You are worth more than what is in your pockets. You're worth what's in your mind and what's in your heart.

Shelly Crane