Time Magazine Quotes

“Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”
― Richard Branson

“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”
― Karl Barth

“The wand is mighter then the sword.”
― Nancy Gibbs

“Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek”
― Norman Mailer, Deaths For The Ladies

“There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.”
― John Updike

“Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological transformations since--well, since the early 18th century. The novel won't stay the same: it has always been exquisitely sensitive to newness, hence the name. It's about to renew itself again, into something cheaper, wilder, trashier, more democratic and more deliriously fertile than ever.”
― Lev Grossman

“Offered a job as book critic for Time magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd kept that job?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.”
― John W. Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years

“When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?”
― Michael Scherer

“Civility is a style of argument that implicitly welcomes response. It is a display of respect and tolerance, which make clear that you are engaging in a conversation, not delivering a last word. Unlike contempt, which generally seems less about your targets than about creating an ugly spectacle for your own partisans to enjoy, a civil argument is a plea to all fellow citizens to respond, even if in opposition. It invites the broader body of concerned citizens to fill in the gaps in my knowledge, to correct the flaws in my argument and to continue to deliberate in a rapidly changing world.”
― Phil Klay