Trow Quotes

#1. Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.

Edna Ferber

#2. If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that, I verily trow that he might leeve for ever, without dying at a', and that doctors and kirkyards would og oot o' fashion.

James Hogg

#3. I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

Edmund Spenser

#4. What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

George W. S. Trow

#5. Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.

George W. S. Trow

#6. It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

George W. S. Trow

#7. [...] but personally if I never drink another crocodile pee I shall be a happy man.'
'Crocodile pee?'
'I always assumed that that was the main ingredient in Gatorade, but I may be wrong.

M.J. Trow

#8. Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

Keith Henson

#9. Let me go!" she growls. "No." "Let me fucking go, Colton." Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. "You let go." "Why?" A hitch in her voice. "Because holding on to it is killing you.

Jasinda Wilder

#10. To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

George W. S. Trow

#11. The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

George W. S. Trow

#12. The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

George W. S. Trow

#13. There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn't occur to anyone to worry about the manner in which a photograph was taken.

George W. S. Trow

#14. The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

George W. S. Trow

#15. Babies are born because parents feel they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours.

Melissa Broder

#16. It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George W. S. Trow

#17. For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

George W. S. Trow

#18. Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

George W. S. Trow

#19. Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Jane Hirshfield

#20. The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

George W. S. Trow

#21. She [Cayce Pollard] feels the things she herself owns as a sort of pressure. Other people's objects exert no pressure. Margot thinks that Cayce has weaned herself from materialism, is preternaturally adult, requiring no external tokens of self.

William Gibson

#22. The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Yvon Chouinard

#23. I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

George W. S. Trow