Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Deaver

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

Michael Crichton

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

Michael Crichton

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.

Mia Bloom

Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.

Michael Wilbon

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

Michael Ruppert

All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

Michael Nesmith

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Michael King

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

Abdul Kalam

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

Alexis Ohanian

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

O. Henry

No, I just thought I'd mention it to you people (the media).

Steve Burton

He won't sugarcoat it, and when he speaks, players and the media listen.

Jim Hightower

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

Jim Harrison

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

Jerome Jarre

Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

Jennifer Lawrence

We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It's disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.

Jennifer Lawrence

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

Jennifer Lopez

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

Jeffrey Skoll

The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company).

Jacques Yves Cousteau

A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.

Christopher Lasch

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Christopher Hitchens

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

Gary Vaynerchuk

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

Gary Vaynerchuk

When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing

Gary Vaynerchuk

You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

Gary Vaynerchuk

While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have followed.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Social media is not a fad because it's human.

Gary Ackerman

The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Jason Kilar

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

Evgeny Morozov

Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.