20th-century Publisher Quotes

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

Some weeks later the Einsteins were taken to the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California. Mrs. Einstein was particularly impressed by the giant telescope.

Love doesn't just drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Helen Gurley Brown

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it's sex.

Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilization
But our souls live in the stone age.

Because of the consensus on full employment, certain observations rarely break in to the public political dialogue. These include:... that even if full employment were possible, it might not be desirable in the new kind of society we are entering; and that even today, most of the useful work we do is not structured into paying "jobs."

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of a history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand.

The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.

Barbara Walters: What would be your first act on becoming President?
John F. Kennedy Jr.: Call Uncle Teddy and gloat.

John F. Kennedy Jr.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.

Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy you'll have. I certainly believed that. Conventional sports nutrition books had me convinced of it. Yet, in practice, we see that clearly isn't the case.

Brendan Brazier

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.