McCarthy Quotes

If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials. Jane Smiley
Trials Heroes Few Previous Crucible He Mass Name Names Witch Context His Salem American Refused McCarthy Literature Psychosis American Literature Them Play Miller
Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen. Andy Cohen
Me Thought Could Get Just Happen McCarthy Straight Turn If I Could Shot Her
I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay. Anthony Doerr
Drop Whatever Mary Writes Anne New Read Doing Essay Anything McCarthy
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president. Bill Kristol
History Father Big Think President Joe Had Powerful Always Big Difference George Were Existed Trump Wallace American Difference McCarthy American History Elements Now Things
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. Buffalo Bill
Enemy Fire Gave Proper Advancing Boy McCarthy Orders Moment
What unites Sanders, McCarthy, McGovern and Reagan is the unmistakable clarity of their moral convictions, their tendency to outrage, and their insistence that the United States needs to embark on a whole new path. Cass Sunstein
Needs Path Convictions States Embark Unmistakable Moral Clarity Insistence Tendency Outrage New Reagan McCarthy Whole United United States Unites
I was pulled out of school for every moratorium day and every rally for a left-wing candidate... from Ed Koch in his heyday to Eugene McCarthy. That's the culture that I came from. Chris Meledandri
Day Culture School Every Rally Heyday Out Moratorium Came His Left-Wing Candidate McCarthy Pulled
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. Desi Arnaz
Joe Like Were His Senate McCarthy
When Melissa McCarthy came out with 'Bridesmaids,' all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot. Donna Lynne Champlin
You Woman Three Saw Melissa Dimensions Out Plot Had Came McCarthy Pivotal Who Bridesmaids Sudden
I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words. Duff McKagan
Words Thousand Thousand Words Point Get McCarthy Across
I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard. Geoff Dyer
Old Men Country Childish No Country Pretty Seemed Genre Read Lots Shooting Fiction Regard McCarthy Old Men Means Even Novels
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. Irwin Shaw
Writers Period Were Being McCarthy Height
The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book. Isaac Marion
Book Matter Sense Think Side Books Way Bit Kind More Road Stuff Like Read Doing Subject Subject Matter Refined Influential Literary Loved McCarthy
What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter? Jake Tapper
Twitter Nixon Would Had Clinton Done McCarthy Bill Bill Clinton
When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about. Jake Tapper
Nature You People Writing Joe Lies About Compromises Write Take He Put Town Come Also Make Forced Were Experienced Fiction Wanted McCarthy Stand Forward Including Washington Things
I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his. James Franco
Book Every Read His Huge Fan McCarthy
Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body. Jennifer Armintrout
Woman Acceptance Melissa Statements About Allowed She Make Because Brash McCarthy Apologize Body Her Actually Fat
I have a lot of respect with Mike McCarthy and for what he's done. John Dorsey
Respect He Lot Done McCarthy Mike
The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay. John Hillcoat
Way Always Blocking Blood Scott Offered Screenplay Wanted McCarthy Which Adapt
Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay. Josh Gad
Bullying Thief Think Melissa Okay Critic Weight Opened New Know Wrote Identity Known Reed Commentary Just Frontiers Movie McCarthy Happening Certainly Her Right Level Designation Last
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace. Joy Reid
Politics Long Politician Andrew Could Joseph Long Tradition Like Most Tradition George Trump Wallace American Jackson McCarthy Populist
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago. Karen Thompson Walker
Love Beautiful Writing Books Favorites Some Road Combine Most Sort Blindness Stylish McCarthy Story Gripping Really Interpreter
I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer. Kitty Kelley
Courage Post Job Admired Admirer Remained Accept Although Editorial His Years Left Senate Staff After McCarthy Page Researcher Washington Washington Post Four
We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image. Lionel Shriver
Ugly Mirror Right-Wing Ourselves Paranoia Above Era Left McCarthy Fancy Informing Century Image
Melissa McCarthy - she's so funny, and she keeps bringing it. Liza Koshy
Funny Melissa She McCarthy Keeps Bringing
I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods. M. Stanton Evans
Joe Admire Sure His Methods Trying Did McCarthy Agree
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