113 quotes found
“Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in personthe two are often different.”
“When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but ...”
“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.”
“J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.”
“(LBJ) had what a journalist calls a genius for analogy made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate”
“He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.”
“Human beings remember "firsts"- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember "lasts" as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delive...”
“He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.”
“Tunney has all the makings of a hero he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.”
“A century is about events. A decade is about people.”
“An experiment had students rate lecturing professors with the sound off. Their ratings closely mirrored evaluations of students who went through the courses with the same professors.”
“His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.”
“It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.”
“Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.”
“For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than experience, ordinarily the best product of the lon...”
“Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.”
“The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand t...”
“Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.”
“Actually, Elizabeth realized, when he laughed like that, he did look quite handsome. His dark brown hair and his eyes, so light a brown as to seem almost gold in color, were not quite as nondescrip...”
“Charisma is the fragrance of soul.”
