Clymer Quotes & Sayings

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top. — Ben Clymer

I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should. — Todd Rundgren

Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not. — Adam Clymer

What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. — Adam Clymer

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. — Adam Clymer

For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure. — Christopher Titus

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians ... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck. — Adam Clymer

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. — Adam Clymer

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons. — Adam Clymer

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language. — Adam Clymer

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go. — Ben Clymer

Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have). — Ben Clymer

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely. — Todd McFarlane

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne. — Adam Clymer

There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times. — George W. Bush

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one. — Ben Clymer

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it — George Clymer

For me, working in the fashion industry is about getting to meet the minds behind the brands. Sure, there are nice dinners, events and shows - even the occasional freebie - but the best part is getting to sit down with and talk to people that have done great things. You quickly realize that no matter who you're talking to, how famous, brilliant or wealthy they are, they are just "people." — Ben Clymer

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. — George Clymer

We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead — Mathias Malzieu

I've been making shoes my whole life. — Steve Madden

Peacemaking contains all the elements of the Christian faith. Peacemaking is the result of not only taking the beatitudes seriously, but living them. It involves right relationships. Right relationships with God, right relationships with God's people and right relationships with God's creation. It involves love. Proper love of self, love of God and creation, and love of all people - even our enemies. It is not passive, it is active; it is peacemaking not peacekeeping. Above all, it is following the way of Jesus, which was the way of the cross, where his power was 'made perfect in weakness' (2 Cor. 12:9). — Donald R. Clymer

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic. — Kimberly Elise