Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

Charles de Gaulle

One does not arrest Voltaire.

Charles Caleb Colton

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

David Allen

Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

David Rakoff

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Jane Austen

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Jane Austen

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Jane Austen

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Janette Turner Hospital

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Diane Ackerman

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Ann Beattie

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Megan Ronhovde

We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.

Tom Swan

Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

Dave Barry

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

Cecily Strong

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

Charles Kuralt

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

David Remnick

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,

Denise Mina

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Eduardo Galeano

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.