Tim Kreider quote: "Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just getting off the goddamn road."

For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and ...
TIM KREIDER

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
TIM KREIDER

One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righ...
TIM KREIDER

I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have ...
TIM KREIDER

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the prese...
TIM KREIDER

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oyst...
TIM KREIDER

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothi...
TIM KREIDER

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There’s only one: the kind that loves to divide u...
TIM KREIDER

It's one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we're alive when we'r...
TIM KREIDER

My feeling toward Republicans is like my feeling about sharks: of course they're stupid and vicious....
TIM KREIDER

One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgement, and love to revel in our rig...
TIM KREIDER

They stunt and blitz a lot, so it's a matter of shutting down some of those stunts up front. I think...
DAN KREIDER

We were doing a fake slant to me and a pitch to Willie, and from what Tommy was saying he had a hard...
DAN KREIDER

I don't know. We've just got to play our game and make adjustments based on what they do. At this po...
DAN KREIDER

It's their linebackers. They just play downhill. Those backers are fast, athletic and make a lot of ...
DAN KREIDER

I think (head coach Bill) Cowher does a good job of telling everybody, 'I don't care where you came ...
DAN KREIDER

We thought we could throw the ball a bit and mix in the run. We thought we'd pound their defensive l...
DAN KREIDER

If you open a hole, you open a hole. Anybody can run through it. The way the guys have played this y...
DAN KREIDER

I was just really relaxed. I was in the zone, having fun and just really comfortable [at the plate].
KATEY KREIDER

We're just trying to go out there and have fun. We're playing hard and staying relaxed.
KATEY KREIDER

I think we were a little anxious in the second game. I think we were almost trying too hard. We just...
KATEY KREIDER

We?re just trying to go out there and have fun. We?re just playing hard and trying to stay relaxed. ...
KATEY KREIDER

It's like an alarm clock's gone off, and I've just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who s...
TIM

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life...
TIM BURTON

So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flex...
TIM VINE

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
TIM BURTON

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit...
TIM ALLEN

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and politic...
TIM WISE

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am...
TIM CAHILL

I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's ...
TIM COOK

We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizo...
TIM COOK

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.
TIM CROUCH

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY

My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they di...
TIM GANE

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
TIM TEBOW

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of...
TIM TEBOW

I'm an introvert on the Myers-Briggs. I've got to have time by myself to recharge. My philos...
TIM KAINE

I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I...
TIM TEBOW

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When di...
TIM REID

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. ...
TIM CAHILL

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific ...
TIM BISHOP

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket...
TIM MCGRAW

One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's ab...
TIM DALY

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're...
TIM TEBOW

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of diff...
TIM CURRY

When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t...
TIM BURTON

I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the w...
TIM HARFORD

Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to lit...
TIM SCHAFER

There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hit...
TIM WAKEFIELD

I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the cultur...
TIM COOK

A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming...
TIM COPE

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
TIM VINE

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my jour...
TIM COPE

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwar...
TIM VINE

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of c...
TIM ALLEN

It turns out that people - in every country in the world, there's a segment of buyer that wants ...
TIM COOK

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I gu...
TIM CONWAY

The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were lookin...
TIM CONWAY

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was ...
TIM SCOTT

I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Dona...
TIM KAINE

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... The...
TINY TIM

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, ...
TIM DALY

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that enc...
TIM GRIFFIN

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there'...
TIM CAHILL

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthu...
TINY TIM

The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are ...
TIM RYAN

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds.
TIM VINE

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images a...
TIM MURPHY

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to r...
TIM FERRISS

I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Ken...
TIM KAINE

Necessity is the author of change
TIM HANSEL

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they...
TIM CAHILL

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and...
TIM JOHNSON

I love drafting like I love eating ice cream or having sex; I love revising like I love doing logic ...
TIM PRATT

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whe...
TIM HOWARD

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.
TIM VINE

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but v...
TIM O'BRIEN

I like bothering people and stirring things up.
TIM DALY

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.
TIM HUDSON

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't co...
TIM HUDSON

Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that ...
TIM HUDSON

I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I g...
TIM HUDSON

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a ...
TIM HUDSON

When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood...
TIM HUDSON

After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money a...
TIM SCHAFER

In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everyth...
TIM O'BRIEN

The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three...
TIM O'BRIEN

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into o...
TIM O'REILLY

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ...
TIM VINE

We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thi...
TIM THARP

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
TIM FARGO

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ...
TIM WILLOCKS

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.
TIM FARGO

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.
TIM FARGO

One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON

Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and...
TIM CRAWSHAW

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.
TIM FARGO

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.
TIM DALY

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but ...
TIM THARP

It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of bei...
TIM THARP

We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
TIM FOLEY

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
TIM GOULD

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
TIM ROBBINS

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.
TIM MCCARVER

I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I...
TIM ROBBINS

Necessity is the author of change.
TIM HANSEL

When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But ...
TIM BURTON

Telling lies does not work in advertising.
TIM BELL

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to m...
TIM BERNERS

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.
TIM GUNN

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles
TIM CAHILL

I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate the...
TIM HARDAWAY

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've...
TIM DUNCAN

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIM FERRISS

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
TIM ALLEN

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good l...
TIM ALLEN

In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chair...
TIM HUNT

Democrats must adopt a progressive economic message that focuses on large, direct infrastructure inv...
TIM RYAN

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is ...
TIM JACKSON

A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty drive...
TIM ARMSTRONG

I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themse...
TIM TEBOW

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
TIM CAHILL

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or U...
TIM BRAY

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.
TIM BISHOP

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation sys...
TIM BISHOP

As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congre...
TIM BISHOP

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen'...
TIM O'BRIEN

I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That'...
TIM TEBOW

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable...
TIM HUELSKAMP

The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some ...
TIM KAINE

The supermarket chain Whole Foods has quite a radical employee empowerment program, where employees ...
TIM HARFORD

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential ...
TIM JACKSON

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropolo...
TIM ROBBINS

While I am talking about private sector job creation, the cap-and-trade energy tax, Speaker Pelosi&#...
TIM GRIFFIN

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is t...
TIM JACKSON

If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great w...
TIM KAINE

If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good s...
TIM WISE

Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's y...
TIM GUNN

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station...
TIM ALLEN

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're o...
TIM GUNN

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
TIM GUNN

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adama...
TIM ALLEN

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and peop...
TIM DALY

My dad was a great business guy, and he always taught us that his business acumen would put his work...
TIM KAINE

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forge...
TIM BURTON

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and huma...
TIM COPE

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessi...
TIM TEBOW

I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think...
TIM TEBOW

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
TIM KAINE

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet s...
TIM O'BRIEN

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.
TIM HUDSON

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It fo...
TIM HOLDEN

Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketpl...
TIM ARMSTRONG

The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the ...
TIM HUNT

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the dam...
TIM FERRISS

People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, the...
TIM GRIFFIN

Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, &#...
TIM BURTON

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represent...
TIM DALY

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
TIM O'REILLY

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.
TIM O'REILLY

There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most p...
TIM O'REILLY

The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big belie...
TIM O'REILLY

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - ev...
TIM O'REILLY

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Micros...
TIM O'REILLY

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, ...
TIM O'REILLY

One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom w...
TIM O'REILLY

So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over ...
TIM O'REILLY

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: w...
TIM O'REILLY

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coi...
TIM O'REILLY

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building...
TIM O'REILLY

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. Th...
TIM O'REILLY

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting ...
TIM O'REILLY

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaborat...
TIM O'REILLY

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to peop...
TIM O'REILLY

One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts,...
TIM O'REILLY

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content...
TIM O'REILLY

This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency...
TIM O'REILLY

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovatio...
TIM O'REILLY

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
TIM O'REILLY

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, cli...
TIM BURTON

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a footbal...
TIM TEBOW

I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet ...
TIM O'BRIEN

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members o...
TIM WISE

I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Wh...
TIM TEBOW

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Wh...
TIM O'BRIEN

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are ...
TIM HUDSON

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preach...
TIM HUDSON

Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and cr...
TIM HOWARD

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.
TIM TEBOW

Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.
TIM COOK

I don't complain when it's sunny.
TIM HOWARD

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.
TIM TEBOW

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as t...
TIM JACKSON

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Chri...
TIM TEBOW

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
TIM CAHILL

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
TINY TIM

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for someb...
TIM HETHERINGTON

Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just getting off the goddamn road.

Tim Kreider

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