James Belich Quotes

#1. O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Robert Kagan

#3. I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Camille Paglia

#6. I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.

Ty Cobb

#7. That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Michael B. Jordan

#8. There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#9. To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

Frances Trollope

#10. Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

Alain De Botton

#11. If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

Jimmy Kimmel