Nordlinger Quotes

#1. Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that the show is "feel good"-but, oh, it feels good to feel good. And the main reason The Music Man feels so good is that it is good-a great American musical.

Meredith Willson

#2. So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

Geddy Lee

#3. History does not have sides, although historians do.

Jay Nordlinger

#4. A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

Henry David Thoreau

#5. It is possible to change, it is possible to leave weakness behind.

Ulisses Soares

#6. Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

Jay Nordlinger

#7. Some things are not always what they appear to be.
Your thoughts lead you as far as the eyes can see.

Laqueisha Malone

#8. From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

Penn Jillette

#9. So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

Jay Nordlinger

#10. You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.

Jay Nordlinger