Quotes Tagged "press"

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.

Sherman Reilly Duffy of the pre-World War I CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL once told a cub reporter, 'Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.' Well, socially I fit in just fine between the whore and the bartender. Both are close friends. And I knew the world was round. Yet, as time went by I found myself confronted with the ugly suspicion that the world was, after all, flat and that there were things dark and terrible waiting just over the edge to reach out and snatch life from the unlucky, unwary wanderer.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

I hate good press, and I abhor bad press.

An adversarial relationship between the president and members of the press can be expected.

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

The press creates a caricature.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.