| "Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day." Orison Swett Marden |
| "Language can be abstracted, language can be used as a very beautiful code in poetry, the nuances and the multiple meanings of things, it has a music to it. It has so many things in it. It is also reduced from prose and therefore can be both mathematical, or very, very abstract." Jim Jarmusch |
| "Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award." Elfriede Jelinek |
| "Are you a journalist who sells his principles in the markets of slaves and who fattens on gossip and misfortune in crime? If so, you are like a ravenous vulture preying upon rotting carrion." Kahlil Gibran |
| "Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us." Angela Carter |
| "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." Mark Twain |
| "For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment." Matthew Arnold |
| "Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race." Charles Bradlaugh |
| "Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true." Samuel Johnson |
| "I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses." Nelson Mandela |
| "But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." Oscar Wilde |
| "I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12." David Bowie |
| "Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control." Allen Ginsberg |
| "Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it." Russel Lynes |
| "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." Soren Kierkegaard |
| "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." Cyril Connolly, (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938) |
| "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." Henry Boye |
| "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 - 2005. |
| "Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them." James J. Jordan, Jr. |
| "With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." Hunter S. Thompson |
| "Television is chewing gum for the eyes." Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "Honesty is the single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product." Ed McMahon |
| "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country." Margaret Thatcher |
| "Perfection only exists in the figment of one's imagination, one should rather embrace a spirit of excellence, which moves from a premise that there is always room for improvement." Thembelani Vanqa |
| "I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." Bethania McKenstry |
| "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926. |
| "There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time." Jef I. Richards, 1999. |
| "To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question." Eric Hoffer |
| "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." Arthur Miller |
| "A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts." William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918. |
