All Graydon Carter Quotes
- There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's… Almost Anything
- Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying,… Bankrupt
- You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature… Bulb
- Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because… Anybody
- I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that. Absence
- Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been. Age
- Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every… All
- In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a… Administration
- I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts. Acts
- Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. Hostage
- Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal… American
- As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now… Bottom
- Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. Benefits
- Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every… Brain
- In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale. Age
- A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists.… Adventurous
- I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. Adulthood
- In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for… America
- What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums?… Acting
- As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you… Any
- It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south… Becomes
- To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it. America
- Everything I love about America is fragile. America
- Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. Back Four
- In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder… America