Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Griffith

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Thomas Griffith

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Thomas Griffith

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Thomas Griffith

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Thomas Griffith

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Thomas Griffith

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Julius Schwartz

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

Julius Schwartz

Since Earth-One is where the Flash existed, and Earth-Two had the other super heroes, how about our Earth? There are no super-heroes.

Theo Van Gogh

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

Jon Garland

When it comes down to it, it's one in the win column for the team. That's what really matters.

Candace Bushnell

Since I had to write every week, I knew the column had to be about something I know.

Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

Allan Sloan

If a column is crying out for a good line and I can't come up with it, I troll for help. Communal humor is good, especially if you involve your boss.

Jonathan Turley

Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.

Bill Scott

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

Bill Simmons

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Ellen Goodman

Those inevitable dreams where you can't get your column in, you know, and at first they were the Xerox telecopy, and then they were the fax machine, and then they were, you know, email. The anxiety remains the same, but the technology has changed.

C. S. Lewis

A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

Charles Taylor

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Chris Garrett

The expression that they've used is I fly the plane.

Janet Norwood

The expression in her eyes was an expression that Byron had described to us as the look of hope. I couldn't stop myself from hugging her.

Emile Cioran

What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

Bret Harte

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

David Sanborn

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Buddy Holly

That'll be the day when I die.

Brunello Cucinelli

Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Gian Carlo Menotti

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Queen Latifah

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Jason Kubel

When I'm in the game I don't even notice it. Of course, there is the usual ache that has come from the injury, but nothing different from how it has felt all along.

Matthew Caws

When it was released, it felt like rebirth. What was fun was that no one was paying attention. It made it like recording the first record.

Justin Peelle

When it was over I felt he could have come to me. When I saw film, he had pressure in his face. He had to get rid of the ball.

Bob Curran

When it was 25-20 and they scored, it felt like miles away to get seven points made up.

Sue Monk Kidd

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Abby Wambach

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

Carol Leifer

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

Carlos Delgado

If you can't smile and have fun, you're in trouble. So if somebody in the stands says hello, I'm going to say hello back. Why shouldn't I? I know what I'm doing in this game. I'm still going to be ready to hit when I step in the box.

Carlos Delgado

Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.

Carlos Mencia

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

Carl Bernstein

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.

Chris Johns

The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone.

Janice Dickinson

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world,

Chanel Iman

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

Bil Keane

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Chelsea Handler

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

Diora Baird

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Bridget Hall

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

John Rennie

We're trying to put together a magazine that doesn't look like it's your grandfather's.

Samir Husni

Trying to have the middle road has never worked in the magazine publishing business.

Bruce Scott

When I missed that I re-adjusted my sights for 2006.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

David Briggs

We had a very nice rally yesterday and now you have some people wanting to take profits and others who missed out wanting to swoop in now.

Mel Willey

There is no question we have been out of the loop. I've missed it, and it's nice to have it back in town.

Joe Montana

When I was playing, I missed my two girls' (events). They look up (in the stands) and myself and my wife are not there. I want to be there for the boys.

Walt Woodruff

She hadn't run track since she was a freshman. She's doing well in the 100. She missed the school record by six-tenths of a second. She's going to get that before the season's over.

Mike Hofland

She's able to get (to) missed shots every time. When she wants to be, she's very aggressive.

Luke Vaccaro

She runs the team. We missed her a lot more than I thought we would.

Don Flanagan

She missed a three-point shot, went right back and shot another three-point shot. I think she shot three in one series and made one of them. She's got to shoot, and when she's open, she's got to shoot.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Luciano Spalletti

Francesco also realized it, and immediately said 'I'm broken.

Ben Shahn

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Burt Shavitz

I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

Domhnall Gleeson

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

R. Robinson

First I thought it was stolen. Then I realized it was stolen, but it was just stolen by the tow truck company,

Sarah Polley

But I've realized that I've stuck to a very specific kind of film and a very specific style of acting, and I would like to shake things up for myself.