Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.


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Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that th...
WILL POULTER
My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia...
WILL HOBBS
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS
I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS
When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS
Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS
Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS
We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS
Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS
I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS
And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS
I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a ...
GEORGE WILL
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE WILL
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t...
GEORGE WILL
Joy comes from using your potential.
WILL SCHULTZ
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
WILL CARLETON
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, t...
WILL CARLETON
The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of busi...
WILL CARLETON
Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the ga...
WILL MCDONOUGH
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious...
WILL SMITH
Never trust a duck.
WILL HERONDALE
By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wante...
WILL FERRELL
Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committ...
GEORGE WILL
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many differ...
WILL FERRELL
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS
I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find t...
WILL HOBBS
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS
It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the q...
WILL DURANT
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS
Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS