America Quote by Eric Alterman

A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty…

— Anosh Irani

I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local…

— James Lileks

I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that…

— Eli Broad

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Though it’s hard to believe now, newspapers were once the envy of the business world. Through the eighties and nineties, 20, 30, even 40…

— Astra Taylor

Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean,…

— Jerry Fodor

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which…

— William James

It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class…

— Hubert Harrison

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness…

— Blaise Cendrars

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.

— Xiaolu Guo

Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...…

— Richard M. Weaver