Bill Kovach Quotes

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

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• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Kristan Higgins

• You can buy some amazing salts now, and they're completely easy to make. In fact you can smoke salt, yourself; there's a very easy way to do it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Amazing
  • Fact
  • Smoke

• Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Love
  • Red
  • Sensible

• Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Know
  • Tradition
  • Great Party

• A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

  

  William Cowper
  • Honesty
  • Lawyer
  • Advantage

• I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

  

  Peter William Ham Badfinger
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Hard

• 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

• It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Moments

• But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Love
  • Power

• I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song

• Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Make Others Happy

• Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.'

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Bands
  • Press
  • Ear

• All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

  

  Bill Kovach
  • Press
  • Governors