Quote

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

Maureen Dowd

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maureen Dowd
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 14
Columnist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Maureen Brigid Dowd
Annoying
Perpetual
Paying
Optimism
Sign
Attention

More quotes by Maureen Dowd

Image
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'
Maureen Dowd
Image
It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.
Maureen Dowd
Image
Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.
Maureen Dowd
Image
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
Maureen Dowd
Image
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
Maureen Dowd
Image
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd
Image
My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.
Maureen Dowd
Image
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Maureen Dowd
Image
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
Maureen Dowd
Image
I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.
Maureen Dowd
Image
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
Maureen Dowd
Image
Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.
Maureen Dowd
Image
I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.
Maureen Dowd
Image
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
Maureen Dowd
Image
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.
Maureen Dowd
Image
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month men have raging hormones every day.
Maureen Dowd
Image
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
Maureen Dowd
Image
Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.
Maureen Dowd
Image
I think even the Hollywood money people are saying they've got to get the party back from the Clinton wing. They can't, you know, keep nominating these Northeast liberals. They have to look for people who can win.
Maureen Dowd
Image
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
Maureen Dowd