William Raspberry Quotes

#1. The slippery slope was everywhere.

Paul Russell

#2. The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.

Frederick Lenz

#3. People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

William Raspberry

#4. And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

William Raspberry

#5. There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

#6. I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

Dean Koontz

#7. I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

Dolly Parton

#8. If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the family. And if you asked me how to do it, my answer - doubtlessly oversimplified - would be; save the boys.

William Raspberry

#9. Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

William Raspberry

#10. Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.

Bruno Mars

#11. It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.

Neal Asher

#12. You can't go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Casey Stengel

#13. One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#14. The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be ... Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

Tony Buzan

#15. It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

William Raspberry

#16. It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

William Raspberry

#17. Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree ... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

William Raspberry

#18. Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.

Alex Turner

#19. Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

William Raspberry

#20. I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Andy Serkis