Thurber Quotes

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. - E. B. White

This is the most important turning point for his administration in terms of turning down and losing support. - James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time. - James A. Thurber

This is a very black day for the White House, and it's going to be very hard for the president to dig out of this. Bush is in trouble. He is going to have a difficult time moving any part of his domestic agenda. - James Thurber

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. - James Thurber

They don't care about (Bush's) legacy. They care about getting re-elected. - James Thurber

These are rifle shots that certainly hurt the party but I don't think it's a wave that comes through and wipes out a lot of people. - James Thurber

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. - James Thurber

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. - James Thurber