Amusing Ourselves To Death Chapter 6 Quotes & Sayings

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. — Denis Diderot

Everybody has multiple personalities - at least three. We're one person at work, another person in private, and a third person when we appear in polite society. — Johan Fundin

Frightening media messages ... pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives. — Michael Medved

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

You lean back against the door with bowed head making ready to set out. By the time you open your eyes your feet have disappeared and the skirt of your great coat come to rest on the surface of the snow. The dark scene seems lit from below. You see yourself at the last outset leaning against the door with closed eyes waiting for the word from you to go. To be gone.Then the snowlit scene. You lie in the dark with closed eyes and see yourself there as described making ready to strike out and away across the expanse of light. You hear again the click of the door pulled gently to and the silence before the steps can start. Next thing you are on your way across the white pasture afrolic with lambs in spring and strewn with red placantae. — Samuel Beckett

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill. — Anne Frank

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul. — Andrew Klavan

I'd give up everything for him, but then what? He has no job, I have no money, and we both live in a box. Love sucks. — H.M. Ward

I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family. — Michael Jackson