Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about...
WOLCOTT GIBBS He wrote about nothing that didn't carry either his name or his initials-sometimes his pieces were s...
WOLCOTT GIBBS Where it all will end, knows God.
WOLCOTT GIBBS Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
WOLCOTT GIBBS It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar...
WOLCOTT GIBBS The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John M...
JAMES WOLCOTT 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing...
JAMES WOLCOTT On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting f...
JAMES WOLCOTT The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film bu...
JAMES WOLCOTT Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily toss...
JAMES WOLCOTT I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary...
JAMES WOLCOTT Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing ha...
JAMES WOLCOTT We have identified the individuals, and they will be getting a bill.
BEN WOLCOTT The fire is well and truly out. It could have been so much worse if we did not have the combined eff...
BEN WOLCOTT Fire conditions are getting worse every day that we have don't rain.
BEN WOLCOTT This is the most dangerous time of year, and we are way behind for rainfall. We've made our preparat...
BEN WOLCOTT It's just burning in the swamp. It's burning fuel that's within the fire lines at this time.
BEN WOLCOTT Conditions will probably get worse. We're still at the front end of wildfire season.
BEN WOLCOTT These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. O...
BEN WOLCOTT It's a major problem and especially when the fire danger is high.
BEN WOLCOTT One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of bl...
JAMES WOLCOTT As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach ...
JAMES WOLCOTT Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had...
JAMES WOLCOTT Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and dead...
JAMES WOLCOTT What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norm...
JAMES WOLCOTT Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance con...
JAMES WOLCOTT It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in ...
JAMES WOLCOTT Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed W...
JAMES WOLCOTT A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his tradema...
JAMES WOLCOTT Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are ...
JAMES WOLCOTT Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered throu...
JAMES WOLCOTT Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, t...
JAMES WOLCOTT Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow hor...
JAMES WOLCOTT The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being...
JAMES WOLCOTT In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and...
JAMES WOLCOTT Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in sh...
JAMES WOLCOTT You're sitting there having breakfast at the St. Regis with Scooter Aspen, buttering each other's to...
JAMES WOLCOTT The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, ...
JAMES WOLCOTT In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's playth...
JAMES WOLCOTT Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, &#...
JAMES WOLCOTT Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century i...
JAMES WOLCOTT Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for ...
JAMES WOLCOTT Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to her...
JAMES WOLCOTT Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his...
JAMES WOLCOTT The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '6...
JAMES WOLCOTT Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No...
JAMES WOLCOTT High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned...
JAMES WOLCOTT And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the m...
JAMES WOLCOTT Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
JAMES WOLCOTT As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads r...
JAMES WOLCOTT Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a b...
JAMES WOLCOTT If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no &...
JAMES WOLCOTT Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and ...
JAMES WOLCOTT There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programmi...
JAMES WOLCOTT Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
JAMES WOLCOTT If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to...
JAMES WOLCOTT A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs...
JAMES WOLCOTT The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop bei...
JAMES WOLCOTT It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
JAMES WOLCOTT A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the...
JAMES WOLCOTT The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top...
NANCY GIBBS After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.
MARLA GIBBS I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!
MARLA GIBBS The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a ...
MARLA GIBBS The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they d...
MARLA GIBBS When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.
MARLA GIBBS Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his min...
MARLA GIBBS Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to...
MARLA GIBBS I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got olde...
MARLA GIBBS Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not...
MARLA GIBBS There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better...
MARLA GIBBS We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can...
MARLA GIBBS You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligatio...
MARLA GIBBS Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it...
MARLA GIBBS Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches ...
MARLA GIBBS I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone...
MARLA GIBBS I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?
MARLA GIBBS If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruption...
NANCY GIBBS Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
NANCY GIBBS The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it i...
NANCY GIBBS All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need m...
NANCY GIBBS On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it ...
NANCY GIBBS Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary traini...
NANCY GIBBS Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes ...
NANCY GIBBS I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challengin...
NANCY GIBBS War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,00...
NANCY GIBBS We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile an...
NANCY GIBBS I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smel...
NANCY GIBBS All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot...
NANCY GIBBS The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and ...
NANCY GIBBS Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossin...
NANCY GIBBS Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
NANCY GIBBS You’re only a first year!” Tina cried. “And you’re already getting death threats! Do you hav...
STUART GIBBS Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance...
NANCY GIBBS If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
NANCY GIBBS I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired some...
ROBERT GIBBS After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as alm...
NANCY GIBBS It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith...
NANCY GIBBS People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
JOE GIBBS For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
NANCY GIBBS The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
WILLARD GIBBS The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight i...
NANCY GIBBS Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst...
NANCY GIBBS The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3....
NANCY GIBBS High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, ov...
NANCY GIBBS The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest t...
NANCY GIBBS Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded in...
NANCY GIBBS In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running w...
NANCY GIBBS As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don&...
MARLA GIBBS We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller se...
NANCY GIBBS I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpos...
MARLA GIBBS Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son c...
NANCY GIBBS The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a followin...
NANCY GIBBS If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its fait...
NANCY GIBBS It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.
NANCY GIBBS Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very...
NANCY GIBBS In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts...
NANCY GIBBS Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher grou...
NANCY GIBBS Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a chang...
NANCY GIBBS New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea leve...
NANCY GIBBS A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
NANCY GIBBS In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, ...
PHILIP GIBBS It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on th...
PHILIP GIBBS Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was ta...
NANCY GIBBS Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense...
NANCY GIBBS Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteri...
NANCY GIBBS I coached in Washington - and in Washington, you lose the ballgame, it's a bad Monday, I just wa...
JOE GIBBS Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge t...
NANCY GIBBS In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way make...
MARLA GIBBS In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way make...
MARLA GIBBS Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things,...
NANCY GIBBS The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
WILLARD GIBBS It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential crimi...
NANCY GIBBS Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to pr...
NANCY GIBBS We'll move on the project within 60 days of getting approval from the county.
BOB GIBBS We plan on having a meeting next week with the appropriate people. The problems with the project sho...
BOB GIBBS Some people had claims where there were no claims.
BOB GIBBS You will be seeing a lot of competition coming your way -- it's inevitable with the demographics.
BOB GIBBS Property rights is a huge issue for me,
BOB GIBBS I think it's going to be a good fit,
BOB GIBBS We want to get everyone at the table, ... The more I dig into this, it's a very complex issue. We wa...
BOB GIBBS When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to sp...
NANCY GIBBS Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
NANCY GIBBS Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizza...
NANCY GIBBS (There’s a rumor that World War III almost started when the computer in charge of the North Americ...
STUART GIBBS You can’t keep me here against my will!” he told Nina. “I am one of the most influential men o...
STUART GIBBS Yes, we drink our own urine in space. They left that out of Star Trek too. The
STUART GIBBS I forked some of my enchiladas in my mouth, only to discover they weren't enchiladas. They were live...
STUART GIBBS Usually when people hear my parents are scientists, they assume they're awkward, unathletic nerds wh...
STUART GIBBS Yes, we drink our own urine in space.
STUART GIBBS Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and...
NANCY GIBBS Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala...
NANCY GIBBS I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and t...
NANCY GIBBS For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
NANCY GIBBS There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marria...
DAVID GIBBS We'd seen the devastation on TV, but didn't really anticipate the sights we saw. It was shocking. I ...
CAROLYN GIBBS I object to any characterization of our government, in good faith, coming to this court ... seeking ...
DAVID GIBBS In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit ...
NANCY GIBBS I think it was one of the prettiest plays I've ever seen,
JOE GIBBS Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid:...
NANCY GIBBS From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the sm...
PHILIP GIBBS I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'...
JOE GIBBS There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation ra...
NANCY GIBBS I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted t...
JOE GIBBS There are relatively few males doing the mating, and a lot of others looking to get lucky.
JAMES GIBBS The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right p...
JOE GIBBS The Australian dollar has moved up against all other currencies quite sharply. The market has been w...
GREG GIBBS What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fr...
NANCY GIBBS We'd like to see Patrick continue to make the real good plays he's made and eliminate the bad ones, ...
JOE GIBBS The whole trip was surprising. I thought I'd see camels; I thought I'd see guns, but we had to look ...
CHRIS GIBBS My impression is that he's very accurate. I think he's going to be a guy that can really roam with t...
JOE GIBBS There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be par...
DAVID GIBBS There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not ...
NANCY GIBBS My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ...
JOE GIBBS I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone c...
ROBERT GIBBS Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that require...
NANCY GIBBS One thing about Patrick is he's a real good student. I think he's smart, and kind of knows when you ...
JOE GIBBS [Coach Joe Gibbs said he believes the Redskins have ample playmakers among the wide receivers, altho...
JOE GIBBS It was just a general feeling I have. I'm looking for someone to really establish themselves as the ...
JOE GIBBS Mark took most of the script and looked good. I'm sure that's the way we'll start.
JOE GIBBS Kids are just louder and participate more in activities. When Duke, our mascot, is out they follow h...
CHRIS GIBBS Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to ...
JOE GIBBS The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and pol...
NANCY GIBBS We wish Bill Musgrave all the best in his new role with the Falcons organization. Although it is unf...
JOE GIBBS Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.
JOE GIBBS We were too passive in the opening quarter, but turned things around in the second quarter. Early on...
ANDY GIBBS She can really do some things because she works hard every day. She also wanted the team to be succe...
ANDY GIBBS As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
NANCY GIBBS In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and ...
NANCY GIBBS Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, ...
NANCY GIBBS I wound up through a wild set of circumstances getting into coaching. I went in and volunteered with...
JOE GIBBS Patrick stepped in there and did a heck of a job. And I don't know if you can say enough about Santa...
JOE GIBBS I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windo...
NANCY GIBBS Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public acco...
NANCY GIBBS