H. L. Mencken Quotes

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Quotes to Explore
-
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
-
I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
-
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
-
I've learned never say never.
-
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
-
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
-
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
-
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
-
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
-
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
-
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
-
By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
-
Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
-
Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
-
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
-
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
-
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
-
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
-
I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.
-
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.
-
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
-
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
-
The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.