Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Packer

No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

Kyle Whittingham

Players have changes of heart all the time and for whatever reason they decided they want to go in a different direction. . . . For whatever reason they've made the decision to take their game and their education ? whatever the case may be ? elsewhere. I'm not sure if they're going to play anymore or not. It's up to them. I haven't talked to them about that.

Andrew White

Party label doesn't matter nearly as much anymore at the mayoral level, ... The real long-term trend everywhere is moving away form the party operations that rooted urban politics in patronage, but that's not to say there isn't still a strong liberal social leaning in many cities.

Rachel-erika Henderson

If you treat me unkindly a little bit of me will love you less and less everyday... Then one day I will wake up and I will no longer love you anymore

Dave Penry

If you think where computers have come in the last 10 years, you can think how far forgery has come. I used to be able to tell a fake document, but I can't anymore and it puts me at extreme risk.

John Paul

In the Dayton area anymore you use to see vehicles drive by and there would be a lot of smoke. We don't see that in the area anymore.

Gianluigi Buffon

I realize the (league title) doesn't provide much excitement anymore but it's still important to bring home a trophy. I don't think this season was a failure. There are teams that don't win anything.

David Bradshaw

I'll tell you there have been so many through. Even teams that aren't on his radar anymore are still calling. Ohio State, Nebraska, Florida, Maryland, Michigan are the ones I have had the most interaction with lately.

Charles Goude

I have today reached the opinion that I don't think anymore that Hitler was bad, or that Milosevic was bad. Because the same media (International radio-stations like BBC, Voice of America, RFI, etc) that presented Hitler and Milosevic as criminals, are now presenting me and the Ivorian Patriots who suffer from the rebellion, like hangmen, though it is us who are suffering from the rebels.

Dennis Lee

I think this will eat into its cable television revenues as early as the second half of the year.

Richard Greenfield

Clearly if cable is regaining market share without cutting prices, that is a positive,

Shari Brill

Cable networks have gotten stronger in introducing original content.

Mike Paxton

Cable is not really growing at all. It's seeing roughly 15 to 20 percent growth in terms of upgrades to digital cable, but net total growth for the industry will probably be down 2 to 3 percent in 2004.

Claudia Jones

Cable cannot dispute the fact that they've incessantly raised rates. Cable rates continue to rise because they lack meaningful competition.

Andrew Levin

Cable and satellite networks should be treated no differently from broadcasters. In today's media landscape, that is a distinction without a difference. We all need to be accountable for what is said in the presence of our kids.

Jenji Kohan

I remember one of my writers on 'Weeds' got a new apartment and didn't get cable or a dish. He just hooked his computer up to the TV. I was like, 'This is it. This is how it's happening.'

Mike Nichols

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.

Brad Adgate

This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there were 188.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Walter Lippmann

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Ruhollah Khomeini

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Robert Maguire

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

Laura Bush

The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood.

Mike Reagan

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Manmohan Singh

Democracy is good for world peace.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Pete Boone

You read newspapers and you read that people think you can't win at Ole Miss. You can.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.