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Letter "B" » Brendan Gill Quotes
«Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
favor, serious, shred, shredded
«If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bears, continuously, possessing, surprises, unpleasant
«If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.»
«It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
A level, intention, playful, scale, The New Yorker, topical
«The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
devoted, firecracker, guns, hissed, hisses, hissing, journalist, pages, popping, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, sedulously, that much, tiny
«Parody is homage gone sour.»
«I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cram, crammed, paragraphing, paragraphs
«The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the program will be subject to state legislative action, and that happens in many states,»
«There's a lot of communication going on and that's why we're having a face-to-face meeting. We're not worried but we won't be satisfied until we have the (funding plan) approved.»
«We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.»
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