Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Postman

Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.

Neil Postman

The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.

Neil Postman

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

Neil Postman

Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

Stephane Mallarme

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Stephane Mallarme

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

Vannevar Bush

Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

Vanilla Ice

I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions.

Vanna Bonta

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Vanna Bonta

Everything solid was first an idea.

Vaclav Havel

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

Vaclav Havel

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

Uta Hagen

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

Usher

The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

V. S. Naipaul

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V. S. Naipaul

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

V. S. Naipaul

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

V. S. Naipaul

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.

Susie Bright

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Susan Wojcicki

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

Suzanne Collins

Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

Tariq Ramadan

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

Steve Stoute

Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

Stephen Lang

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

Stephen King

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

Stephen King

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Stephen King

...stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel sh*t from a sitting position.

Stephen King

It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

Stephen King

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Stephen King

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

Stephen King

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.

Stephen King

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.