Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Bosworth

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Albert Einstein

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Alfred Korzybski

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Aldous Huxley

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Aldous Huxley

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Albert Einstein

The stupid are invincible.

Ali MacGraw

When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'

Rene Saguisag

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Tony Blair

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Seth Godin

Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

Noam Chomsky

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

Noam Chomsky

Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Noam Chomsky

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

Noam Chomsky

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Mindy Kaling

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Mike Quade

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

Elie Wiesel

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Dennis Miller

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is,

Donald Rumsfeld

If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly.

Tim Ferriss

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

Sam Donaldson

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Stephen Colbert

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

Thomas Kuhn

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

Vernon Howard

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

Susan Stroman

I always say that you can't be afraid to ask the question. What's the worst that could happen? The answer could be "no" and you go on.