August Media Quotes & Sayings

Attempts to thwart or muzzle the media continued as well. At a conservative caucus meeting in Charlottetown in August 2007, journalists assembled in the lobby of the hotel, as they usually do at such gatherings, to talk to caucus members as they passed by. The [Prime Minister's Office] communications team, however, was not prepared to allow it. Taking their cue, or so it appeared, from a police state, they had the RCMP remove the reporters from the hotel. — Lawrence Martin

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word "Explosion" alone, of which the ancients knew nothing. — Arthur Eddington

Predictable? Hell, yes.

Do I care? Not a bit. — Twisted Hilarity

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would sit there and I would be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" So who wants to think about that stuff? — Woody Allen

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. — Walter Pater

They say you can bear anything if you can tell a story about it. — Sue Monk Kidd

And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding. — Lil' Wayne

He hated him for the twenty-three year old his mother had been, younger than he now was when she'd died, alone and sorrowful. — Sarah J. Maas

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike. — Wanda Sykes

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. — Thomas Otway

The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else. — Steve Young

They say you're nobody til somebody kills you
But where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody — Lil' Wayne

Intelligence and genius — Albert Einstein

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance. — Nelson Mandela

Sure enough a few delinquent chiefs have been uncovered. The media then focused on them, as if they were representative of all chiefs. But the reality is that very few chiefs were found to be acting badly. Most were found to be underpaid. Did anyone bother to compare the percentage of overpaid chiefs with the percentage of overpaid CEOs in the private sector? The percentage of corrupt or incompetent chiefs with the percentage of corrupt or incompetent mayors? Toronto, Montreal, Laval and London come to mind, representing a large percentage of Canada's population. On August — John Ralston Saul