Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

Dick Vermeil

All the speculation, television, the media throwing things out all shook him up. Someone said he had a tumor on his spine. He thought it was very unfair.

Dick Vermeil

All the speculation (from) television, the media throwing things out, all shook him up,

Emraan Hashmi

I don't want to belong to any league. I am in a league of my own. I don't want any tags associated with me because I know when the media associates tags with you, they also have the power to remove those tags tomorrow.

Enoch Powell

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

James Belushi

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.

Jon Krakauer

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Jon Corzine

Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

Joichi Ito

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Stephen Kinzer

New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

Thomas Jefferson

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Rick Ross

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

Rick Ross

I played a major role in the spread of crack cocaine, the marketing of crack cocaine, the glamorization of crack cocaine. But it's hard to say that it was totally my fault. My judge in Cincinnati told me, "Mr. Ross, I know that the prosecutor and the media and the DEA all want to blame you for this problem, but I sentenced my first drug dealer the year you were born, so I know you're not the cause. This is a problem we've had since before you were born."

Tammy Bruce

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

Ron Suskind

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Stana Katic

Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you’re dating Robert Pattinson, you’re screwed.

Stephen Colbert

Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended.

Steffi Graf

It shifted attention away from that and Ive never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

Tim Tebow

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.

William Gibson

There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.

William Gibson

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Westbrook Pegler

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)

Sarah Palin

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Why does baloney avoid the grinder?

Vera Farmiga

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

Richard Dawkins

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

Rodney Stark

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

Robert Ringer

It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves as less fortunate than others, by repeatedly talking about eh billions of dollars in 'windfall profits' earned by major corporations, by featuring periodic stories on the opulent living of wealthy individuals, or by pointing an accusing finger at 'loopholes' used by 'the rich.'

Ryan Holmes

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

Ryan Holmes

Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

Thomas Sowell

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

Thomas Sowell

Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.