Demesne Crossword Quotes & Sayings

The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not. — Erich Fromm

I wish my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; — Laurence Sterne

He knew America, and even though he hadn't been there in fifteen years, he knew what its soldiers liked because of what one of them had written on the door of a metal locker that was in the room he'd been given to live in. "Sex, potato soup, and Johnny Cash," it said. — David Finkel

Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Circumstances should never alter principles! — Oscar Wilde

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast. — Groucho Marx

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles. — Joe Bradley

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference. — Robert Cormier

The years might change our outer selves, but underneath it all we stayed the same, we kept our patterns ... — Susanna Kearsley

Apparently, Adrik and Harshaw had been evicted for the night. A very bleary Genya and David blinked up at us from beneath the covers of a single narrow cot.
Mal gave a little cough. Can't say I'm surprised. — Leigh Bardugo

Well, screw this daddy complex shit. 100ccs of Madonna girl power needed STAT! — Kate Meader

During the twentieth century, communist governments killed some 100 million of their own people in peacetime, either by repression or by famine. — Charles Wheelan

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music. — Bill Laswell

My parents' marriage, begun with a pregnancy that produced a stillborn child, was itself stillborn - a union formed with expectation and promise that never delivered. — Bridgett M. Davis

There's my bad boy, she whispered. God, he was breathtaking. — Thea Harrison