Columnists Washington Quotes & Sayings

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us. — Susumu Tonegawa

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths. — Richard Ellmann

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people. — Mark Kirk

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world. — James Gleick

She also thought that she was head of the family, since she had had to manage her mother's funeral, since she had to get a housekeeper for Billy, and all that. Also, Barbara and her husband were having to look after Billy's business interests, which were considerable, since Billy didn't seem to give a damn for business any more. All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet. And Billy, meanwhile, was trying to hang onto his dignity, to persuade Barbara and everybody else that he was far from senile, that, on the contrary, he was devoting himself to a calling much higher than mere business. — Kurt Vonnegut

From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible. — Alex Pareene

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families. — Joss Whedon

I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like. — Gwyneth Paltrow