Media quotes of the day

"Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children."
Marilyn Penland

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney

"He who sings scares away his woes."
Cervantes

"I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet."
Tommy Docherty

"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. "
Hosea Ballou

"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being."
Thomas Jefferson

"Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science."
Linda Bowles

"The paper burns, but the words fly away."
Akiba ben Joseph

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
Edmund Burke

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Dorothy Parker

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
Nadine Gordimer

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Ezra Pound

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
Mr Weasly, character in the Harry Potter series of books by J.K. Rowling

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Kahlil Gibran

"I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
Jane Wagner

"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face."
James D. Finley

"Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery."
Mark Amidon

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
Franklin P. Adams

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
Heinrich Mann

"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves."
Jeremy Collier

"In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation."
Stéphane Mallarmé

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain

"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house."
Joe Ryan

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
James Bryce

"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
John Stuart Mill

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Joseph Joubert

"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
Mark Twain

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