Publisher Quotes

Johannes Gutenberg

Stan Lee

Hugh Hefner

Christoph Martin Wieland

Joseph Pulitzer

William Randolph Hearst

Aldus Manutius

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown.... It is a city that offers me more people — more different kinds of people — than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

Katharine Graham

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Ford Madox Ford

'It's better'n a Christmas,' they told their mother, 'to get ready for it!'

Margaret Sidney

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

James R. A. Bailey

And less is often more, as Lessing's Prince teaches us.

Christoph Martin Wieland

How free from every thing like art were the reasonings and language of Christ.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, that does not live by secrecy.

Joseph Pulitzer

There is no study which requires more continuous and undisturbed attention than the study of complicated statistical problems.

Georg Joachim Göschen

Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.

Andrew Breitbart

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination...

Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."

Charles Jefferys

I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

John Joseph Griffin

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

George P. Rowell

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

William Randolph Hearst

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly and applying unsuitable remedies.

Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilization
But our souls live in the stone age.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Because I really care about homosexuals…and I want them to know that they will face a horrible judgment.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Because of the consensus on full employment, certain observations rarely break in to the public political dialogue. These include:... that even if full employment were possible, it might not be desirable in the new kind of society we are entering; and that even today, most of the useful work we do is not structured into paying "jobs."

Some weeks later the Einsteins were taken to the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California. Mrs. Einstein was particularly impressed by the giant telescope.