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

• A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • Men
  • Trying
  • She

• Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Memories
  • Dreams

• “Free thought, free speech and a free press.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Free
  • Thought
  • Speech

• Once you learn what the disease or physical block has to teach you and finally let go of the emotional issues stored in the cells, then, and only then, can real healing begin on all levels - emotional, spiritual and physical.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Issues

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

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Press
  • Cynical
  • Base