Mainstream Quotes · Page 9

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

— Kinky Friedman

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

— Eddie Trunk

I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

— Alison Bechdel

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

— Bill Gates

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

— Kevin Drum

In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

— Roy Choi

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

— John Naisbitt

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

— Issa Rae

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

— Charles R. Swindoll

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

— Margaret Craven

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is…

— Nina Blackwood

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

— Young Buck

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far…

— Jack Nicholson

You know, honestly I feel that in this day and age right now there are too many rock bands that have went…

— 3 Doors Down

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't…

— Stephen King

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

— Mark Fisher

People need to realize that because black people have been established in the U.S. for a lot longer than in the U.K.,…

— AJ Tracey

I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make…

— Jonathan Hickman

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream…

— Cornel West

Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think…

— Nestor Carbonell

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and…

— Billy Corgan

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing…

— Walter Mosley

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really…

— Thom Yorke

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are…

— Issa Rae

On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you.…

— Brother Yun

If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh…

— Rachel Maddow

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him…

— James Berardinelli

There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really…

— Gordon Raphael

Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even…

— Yukio Mishima

A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on…

— David Papineau

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down…

— Charles Stross

“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a…

— Tom Robbins

Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.

— Demi Lovato

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

— Jon Stewart

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

— Pink

I love 'Doctor Who' as a big, popular, mainstream, accessible show.

— Chris Chibnall

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

— Warren Ellis

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

— Jodie Foster

I don't wanna go full mainstream and have my followers go 'What happened?'

— Blueface

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the…

— Rebecca Solnit