Top 474 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Publishers - Page 2

The best vision is insight.

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

I like to joke that Inhofe is as far left as I'll go for an employer.

Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.

Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual.

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

You can love your job, but your job will not love you back.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

If you can educate girls, you can change the world.

Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.

I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born.

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Because America is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. We have the world's largest reserves of natural gas, and the world's most sophisticated production and storage facilities, by a wide margin.

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.