quotes on media

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence



You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988



You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard



Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer



How come there's only one Monopolies Commission? ~Nigel Rees



A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race



Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets



Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless



You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba



Duty is what one expects from others. ~Oscar Wilde



The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas Jefferson



Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. ~Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers



If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~Alan King



Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down. ~Toni Morrison



Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. ~Peter Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions, 1900



A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman



Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. ~Stephen Jay Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," The Panda's Thumb, 1980



He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. ~Sydney Smith



Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you ~Bennett Cerf



To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will. ~Stephen MacKenna