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
time age generations
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
spiritual ideas giving
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
photography maturity order
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
struggle ambition novices
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
spiritual food men
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
time thinking enough
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
food thinking sheep
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
educational teaching learning
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
music musical hell
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
teacher desire failing
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
motivational goal becoming
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
food wine mind
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
self denial virtue
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
science goal imagine
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.