Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Trump

Not for nothing that [Donald] Trump, who himself has had some high unfavorable ratings, distrusted by a significant amount of the population and even a significant amount of the Republican voting electorate is more trusted than the media right now.

Dan Chaon

I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

David Mamet

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

David Frum

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

David Frum

The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).

David Zinczenko

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

David Silverman

The consistent growth in overall revenues shows marketers may be shifting more of their total advertising budgets to online. This is a natural development as research shows more consumers are spending a larger percentage of their media time online, while the flow of advertising dollars follows.

Dan Brown

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

Curt Weldon

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

Curt Weldon

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Corey Stoll

Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.

Danah Boyd

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

Danah Boyd

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Dale Spender

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

David Cassidy

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

Dario Fo

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Derrek Lee

It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.

Delia Smith

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them

Deborah Ann Woll

I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.

Amitabh Bachchan

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Amy Goodman

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'

Anita Sarkeesian

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

Andrew Weil

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

Chuck Palahniuk

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

Chuck D.

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.

Christopher McQuarrie

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. Theres even reverence to a screenplay.

Christopher Morley

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Amos Lee

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

Annette Bening

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

Amy Goodman

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

Amy Goodman

The media—stenographers to power.

Amy Goodman

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

Alva Myrdal

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.