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The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on… — Neil Postman
They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom. — Joe Bageant
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice:… — Oscar Wilde
The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen… — Thomas Merton
You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and… — Tobey Maguire
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate,… — Catherine Helen Spence
There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like… — Frederic Chopin
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the… — Mohsin Hamid
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere… — Philip K. Dick
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed… — Matt Drudge
. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that for this reason… — Vincent de Paul
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not… — Morris Kline
Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like $8,000 worth of… — Richard Branson
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And… — William Shawn
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. — James Boswell
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. — Dennis Potter
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than… — Jonathan Swift

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