Presses Quotes · Page 60

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

— Danny Boyle

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

— Joanna Baillie

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free…

— William Ellery Channing

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous…

— Abraham Lincoln

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which…

— Thomas Jefferson

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

— Lewis H. Lapham

the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's…

— Charles Stross

Speaking as someone who bought the party line for far too long, you would be amazed what you can believe if you…

— John Cole

You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls…

— Herbert Hoover

I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of…

— John Lasseter

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…

— Barry S. Strauss

When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

— George Ade

I told Pattie that last night I dreamt that we had a press conference and nobody showed up. I am overwhelmed that…

— LaVell Edwards

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

— Hugo Black

I was invited. Oxford University Press is simply as prestigious a press as there is so when they come to your door…

— Patricia Leavy

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what…

— Rupert Murdoch

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

— Marie Corelli

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the…

— Victoria Woodhull

Of course, with Papaveria Press, you know the book itself is going to be beautiful.

— Theodora Goss

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

— Orson Scott Card

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole…

— Doug Stanhope

I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville