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 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 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 Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about...
WOLCOTT GIBBS 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 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 He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them
WOLCOTT GIBBS It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar...
WOLCOTT GIBBS 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 Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON