George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
mistake principles doctrine
A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.
seductive childhood promise
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.
procedures figs democratic
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
understanding tests capacity
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
creatures humans adapting
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
being-yourself men views
I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
grandmother tea mind
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
cigar hours vacuity
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
london hotel shops
London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
drinking drunk alcohol
I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.
invention inventor mice
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
vibrations found certain
Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.
piano littles talent
I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.
roots track tragedy
Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.