Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erik Qualman

The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.

Erik Qualman

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

Eric Sevareid

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

John McCain

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

John McCain

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

John Hockenberry

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

John Hodgman

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

John Hodgman

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

John Hodgman

It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word "expert" underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless.

I already know that. I'll be talking to the police about that, not to the media.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eduardo Galeano

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

Eduardo Galeano

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

As a result of our successful online investments, we are now a significantly more diversified media company.

Right now, we're just trying to get focused. We just want to play and not speak to the media.

Robbie Williams

You're talking about a woman who has never harmed anyone, has never pretended to be someone she isn't. I find the way some in the various media groups, who I have personally taken cocaine with, are now saying she shouldn't take cocaine.

Hans Blix

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.

Herman Cain

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

Jerry Garcia

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

Esther Dyson

New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.

Ernst Fischer

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

Florence Welch

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.

Cat Stevens

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Gore Vidal

Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.

Jake T. Austin

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

Jacques Derrida

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Iris Chang

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Jeremy Lin

I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

Jeremy Lin

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

George Will

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

Jim Hightower

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

Jim Harrison

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

Jerome Jarre

Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.