People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues...
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
CALVIN TRILLIN We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't ge...
CALVIN TRILLIN If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not f...
CALVIN TRILLIN There's always a source for humor.
CALVIN TRILLIN I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
CALVIN TRILLIN What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it ...
CALVIN TRILLIN The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
CALVIN TRILLIN I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
CALVIN TRILLIN What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
CALVIN TRILLIN The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
CALVIN TRILLIN When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
CALVIN TRILLIN Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
CALVIN TRILLIN You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poe...
CALVIN TRILLIN I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant m...
CALVIN TRILLIN When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the ...
CALVIN TRILLIN I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
CALVIN TRILLIN I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
CALVIN TRILLIN As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
CALVIN TRILLIN In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it dif...
CALVIN TRILLIN Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoveris...
CALVIN TRILLIN There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would gue...
CALVIN TRILLIN I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my an...
CALVIN TRILLIN The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
CALVIN TRILLIN Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to...
CALVIN TRILLIN The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but...
CALVIN TRILLIN Health food makes me sick.
CALVIN TRILLIN The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into mag...
CALVIN TRILLIN Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
CALVIN TRILLIN I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of lo...
CALVIN TRILLIN Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him...
CALVIN TRILLIN In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it dif...
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.
CALVIN TRILLIN Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
CALVIN TRILLIN The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member o...
CALVIN TRILLIN Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and nake...
CALVIN TRILLIN Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restau...
CALVIN TRILLIN Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme.
CALVIN TRILLIN It isn't like when John died, when there were a lot of people there. I think this time she wanted to...
CALVIN TRILLIN Life covered his graduation,
CALVIN TRILLIN The price of purity is purists.
CALVIN TRILLIN Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at lea...
CALVIN TRILLIN Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
CALVIN TRILLIN Ross begat Shawn. He handed down the crown of St Peter to Shawn.
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't mind being compared to Tolstoy literarily, but when it comes to Fun Stats it's a little humi...
CALVIN TRILLIN It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessn...
CALVIN TRILLIN The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt
CALVIN TRILLIN Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and st...
CALVIN TRILLIN Why in the world are you a Republican?
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
CALVIN TRILLIN I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
CALVIN TRILLIN Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
CALVIN TRILLIN With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would d...
CALVIN TRILLIN Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
CALVIN KLEIN We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the thi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGE To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...
JOHN CALVIN I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
CALVIN KLEIN Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
CALVIN KLEIN I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
CALVIN KLEIN It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more th...
CALVIN KLEIN I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that&#...
CALVIN KLEIN I don't think about my fame very much.
CALVIN KLEIN AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribu...
CALVIN KLEIN I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
CALVIN KLEIN Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
CALVIN KLEIN I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My...
CALVIN KLEIN I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like gra...
CALVIN KLEIN I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
CALVIN KLEIN I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
CALVIN KLEIN I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and ...
CALVIN KLEIN I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
CALVIN KLEIN If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
CALVIN KLEIN I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
CALVIN KLEIN You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried ...
CALVIN KLEIN It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
CALVIN KLEIN Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
CALVIN KLEIN I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
CALVIN KLEIN I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
CALVIN KLEIN The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They'r...
CALVIN JOHNSON It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career...
CALVIN JOHNSON Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you k...
CALVIN JOHNSON If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
CALVIN JOHNSON You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see th...
CALVIN JOHNSON I'm just a worker.
CALVIN JOHNSON I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
CALVIN JOHNSON During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I...
CALVIN JOHNSON I've been a Madden guy since I was little.
CALVIN JOHNSON That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
CALVIN JOHNSON I like to dress up every now and then.
CALVIN JOHNSON It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the...
CALVIN JOHNSON I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared...
CALVIN JOHNSON Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
CALVIN JOHNSON Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
CALVIN JOHNSON I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I...
CALVIN JOHNSON I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
CALVIN JOHNSON I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
CALVIN JOHNSON I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
CALVIN JOHNSON If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, ...
CALVIN JOHNSON Retired life's good, man.
CALVIN JOHNSON For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that fee...
CALVIN JOHNSON Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over...
CALVIN JOHNSON The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
CALVIN JOHNSON Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ...
CALVIN KLEIN There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
JOHN CALVIN From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate ...
CALVIN HARRIS There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rej...
JOHN CALVIN Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than...
CALVIN COOLIDGE If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United Sta...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The tempt...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existe...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character t...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common th...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
CALVIN COOLIDGE A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked a...
JOHN CALVIN When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No man ever listened himself out of a job.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in it...
JOHN CALVIN Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead h...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplis...
CALVIN COOLIDGE You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before t...
CALVIN COOLIDGE No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is...
JOHN CALVIN Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the peop...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or w...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
CALVIN COOLIDGE My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own busin...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt ...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for yo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
CALVIN COOLIDGE It takes a great man to be a good listener.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No one every listened themselves out of a job.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer.
CALVIN CALVERLEY As we turn through the pages of the press and the periodicals, as we catch the flash of billboards a...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in dev...
CALVIN COOLIDGE It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered accordin...
JOHN CALVIN If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great se...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow
CALVIN COOLIDGE The business of America is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for y...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
CALVIN COOLIDGE All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persist...
CALVIN COOLIDGE There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendshi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE One with the law is a majority.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Advertising is the life of trade.
CALVIN COOLIDGE The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
CALVIN COOLIDGE As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't m...
CALVIN JOHNSON To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded t...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common tha...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...
CALVIN COOLIDGE All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for yo...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
CALVIN COOLIDGE Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...
CALVIN COOLIDGE The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
CALVIN KLEIN I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
CALVIN COOLIDGE No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to y...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
JOHN CALVIN Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the wil...
JOHN CALVIN God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of...
JOHN CALVIN There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; ...
CALVIN KLEIN I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplis...
CALVIN COOLIDGE For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own exper...
MELVIN CALVIN A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attack...
JOHN CALVIN