Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod. Graydon Carter More Quotes by Graydon Carter More Quotes From Graydon Carter Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse. Graydon Carter bars mind men Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds. Graydon Carter issues hypocrisy numbers 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 the photos will come back to haunt them. Graydon Carter fashion later-in-life children Many men think they're playboys but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser'. Graydon Carter land men thinking Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been. Graydon Carter 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 conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things. Graydon Carter notebook taken memories I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. Graydon Carter games sports men I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between. Graydon Carter stuff trying looks Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. Graydon Carter minutes four kids To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it. Graydon Carter growing-up crazy kids People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. Graydon Carter nice people thinking Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. Graydon Carter institutions honest financial Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving. Graydon Carter voice years moving Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. Graydon Carter paris writing giving My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. Graydon Carter moments culture past Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life. Graydon Carter hard-way hard way Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. Graydon Carter attributes unattractive men Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember. Graydon Carter lenses memories thinking Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. Graydon Carter elements three stories It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline. Graydon Carter age america years
