Neil Postman Quotes
The question, 'How well does one read?' is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is 'How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?' No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.
Neil Postman
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
Zachary Taylor
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush
When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
Caitlin Moran
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
Farnaz Fassihi
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
L. Neil Smith
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
Eddie Floyd
When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
Ed Harris
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley
There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
Ilan Stavans
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
Vincent D'Onofrio
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy
There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.
Doug Liman
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
Danielle Steel
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen
You see the same plain landscape day after day, and then one day, perhaps it's the play of light or the time of year, you find it beautiful and other landscapes at fault. So it must be with fashion. Ordinary judgement falls into abeyance and something else, some bewitchment, takes over. How else to explain the appeal of garments that in a few years look so ridiculous?
Elizabeth Hay
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer
The question, 'How well does one read?' is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is 'How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?' No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.
Neil Postman
