All Quotes

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
‐‐ Mortimer Zuckerman

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

These days, I am the most boring, methodical runner. I always do the same three- to five-mile loop near my home every evening. I hardly ever miss a day. On the weekends, I might go longer or add in weights.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.
‐‐ Steve Hackett

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
‐‐ Karen Thompson Walker

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
‐‐ Ang Lee

These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
‐‐ Marc Almond

These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.
‐‐ Curtis Stone

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
‐‐ Larry Flynt

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.
‐‐ Tulsi Gabbard

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
‐‐ James Van Allen

These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references - in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs - to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature.
‐‐ Tony Bradman

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.
‐‐ Len Wein

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
‐‐ Leon Panetta

These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.
‐‐ Susan Olsen

These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.
‐‐ Taylor Negron

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.
‐‐ Chen Long

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
‐‐ Galen Rowell

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.
‐‐ George Lois

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
‐‐ Aulis Sallinen

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.
‐‐ Peter Lindbergh

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
‐‐ Van Morrison

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.
‐‐ Richard D. Zanuck

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.
‐‐ Nick Lowe

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
‐‐ Mortimer Zuckerman

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
‐‐ Taylor Wilson

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
‐‐ Jim Sensenbrenner

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
‐‐ Peter Straub

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
‐‐ Catherine Keener

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.
‐‐ Jacques Delors

These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
‐‐ Alexandra Kleeman

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.
‐‐ Pope Francis

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.
‐‐ Andrew Bogut

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
‐‐ Joan D. Vinge

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
‐‐ Richard Louv