In the fight between you and the world, back the world. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: power self world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. —David Brinkley More about this quote Tags: news television information Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: future inconvenience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. —Allan Goldfein More about this quote Tags: rationality absurdity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right. —Jack Kerouac More about this quote Tags: world craziness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: life history purpose meaning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man. —Cid Corman More about this quote Tags: wonder politics poetry dreams conservatism earth sun moon Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The function of freedom is to free somebody else. —Toni Morrison More about this quote Tags: freedom sharing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: humor books television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. —Walker Evans More about this quote Tags: attention learning purpose knowledge death listening urgency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. —Robert Bresson More about this quote Tags: attention television media inattention Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: truth humanity society suicide Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: history freedom dogma USA creed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With words we govern men. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: power words government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicans' advice not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: politics speech media reporting politicians Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email