Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

Leon Wieseltier

Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Jose Antonio Vargas

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Jon Krakauer

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Emraan Hashmi

I don't want to belong to any league. I am in a league of my own. I don't want any tags associated with me because I know when the media associates tags with you, they also have the power to remove those tags tomorrow.

Ellen Lupton

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Octavio Paz

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

Joe Schmidt

It's not a place to come and die; it's a place for them to come and get rehabilitated and readied for sale, ... The purpose is to rehabilitate them and get them back into life.

Andrew Benson

You told dispatch you didn't shoot her on purpose, ... Did you shoot her on purpose?

Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

Newt Gingrich

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

Christopher Hitchens

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

Karl Marx

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state

Judith Curry

I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

Jim Rohn

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

Bob Brown

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Donna Dubinsky

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

Donald Luskin

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

David Antin

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Tony Benn

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

Ronald Fisher

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

John Wooden

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

Christopher Dodd

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.