Quotes About Wonk

#1. I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#2. Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.

Thomas Frank

#3. The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

David Weinberger

#4. I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

Peter Morgan

#5. I'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.

Clint Howard

#6. I'm a political analyst. I'm a political wonk. I read everything I can get my hands on as a contributor to the 'Weekly Standard.' Of course I read that. I read the 'National Review' on the right. I read 'Mother Jones' on the left. If I want a good laugh, I'll watch MSNBC or read 'The Nation.'

Michael Ramirez

#7. The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

Peter Morgan

#8. It doesn't take a brain surgeon ... or a cardiologist ... or a pediatrician ... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

Heidi Murkoff

#9. Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

John Updike

#10. His hand rested above my hip, having a totally different impact on me. My skin tingled underneath the chiffon. Daemon cleared his throat as he glanced away. 'You ... you look beautiful, by the way. Really too good to be with that idiot.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. I have done the journey between Tientsin and Peking so many times that I recognize even the stray dogs (known locally as wonks) that frequent the platforms in the hopes of picking up something thrown out from the carriage windows.

Daniele Vare

#12. For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

Robert Breault

#13. When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when the iron's hot.

Markus Zusak

#14. In that moment, she had felt like there wasn't a place in the world he wouldn't go with her, and she couldn't think of a single place she wanted to go without him.

Kaye Thornbrugh

#15. The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the hippo squatting on my head.

Gemma Halliday

#16. Drinking tea with a pinch of imagination!

50 Ways To Drink Tea

#17. Then a deadline arrives and you have to cut it short. Is shipping that important? I think it is. I think the discipline of shipping is essential in the long-term path to becoming indispensable.

Seth Godin

#18. If people around me didn't lied, I would also won't lie!

Deyth Banger

#19. Could you stand still please?' Sylvia says in an irritated voice. If she had sweaty balls and an almost-boner she wouldn't be so judgmental. Am I right, or am I right?

Tara Sivec

#20. I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

James Callis

#21. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Henry Hazlitt

#22. I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

Zach Braff

#23. We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

Thomas Harris