Paul Will
Paul Will
patience real thinking
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
hey way wonderful
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.
understatement
Muffled lives explode in understatements.
typewriters cities scotch
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.
rewards things-change recognition
If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.
timing turnaround
We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.
objectivity ornaments saws
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.
tombstone life-and-death littles
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.
necklaces nooses
Many a necklace becomes a noose.
transformation silent footnotes
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
quotation-marks theft bigs
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
trials crime gallows
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
voice thousand
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
radio invisible listeners
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.