Michael Gerson Quotes

#1. You call democracy freedom.
I call it corporation.

Jeffrey Fischer

#2. Was humanity, or even life itself, that significant in the grand scheme of things? Wasn't humanity's survival directly related to nature's decline?

M.R. Mathias

#3. Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

Urs Fischer

#4. The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

Michael Gerson

#5. Bach has taken us on a journey that we interpret and experience through our own memories, feelings and conditioning. You will respond differently from the way I do, and vice versa. That is the glory of music, especially music as immortal as this.

James Rhodes

#6. 'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

Ronnie Hawkins

#7. Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else's story.

Michael Gerson

#8. Where may he be at present?' Mrs. Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative. 'He

Charles Dickens

#9. Ace would be the first to turn the words into a joke, one about how artists fell in love every day before noon and got their hearts broken by dinner.

Kit Rocha

#10. Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

Michael Gerson

#11. So Carlito think about this: all the apple-biting.

Randy Orton

#12. In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.

Jane Smiley

#13. Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

Greg Gutfeld

#14. Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

Bruce Springsteen

#15. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Frank Herbert

#16. You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

Carl Jung

#17. Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#18. Regardless of where I have been, I choose to step into my loving.

Habib Sadeghi