Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

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• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Earth
  • End

• Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

  

  Adam Green
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Doing

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Service
  • Company
  • Website

• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • Water
  • Depression
  • Table

• I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

  

  Iman
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Progress

• I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes.

  

  Kristan Higgins

• Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lying

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is quicker to turn on the psyche's censoring devices and distortion systems, than trying to write truthfully.

  

  John Gardner
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Knows

• If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Imagination
  • Tale

• Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!'

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Enemy
  • Stone
  • Kissed

• Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

  

  Bernard Madoff
  • Money
  • Risks
  • Wall Street

• This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Conquer

• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Press
  • Cynical
  • Base