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
spiritual animal interest
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
clouds battle lightning
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
fate perfect lines
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.
fighting animal men
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
kindness regret advice
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
compassion earth reason
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
doe helping barak-obama
I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.
tired long curiosity
There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.
bigs big-questions incline
Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
littles nuggets enough
I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.
kind form should
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
firsts speak
...smile first, then speak.
higher-ground luck needs
If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.
nice writing feelings
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.