Jane Eyre Bildungsroman Quotes & Sayings

Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media (like the phone) has now expanded to include a third option: two-way media that operates on a scale from private to public. — Clay Shirky

Yes, but I doubt Jane Eyre is explicit about irrational fucking.' 'Ah, so you believe my only source of information is a Bildungsroman from the nineteenth century about an orphan girl who marries a gigantic arse. — Charlotte Stein

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him. — Kurt Vonnegut

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea. — Bruce Springsteen

I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time. — Joe Dante

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings. — James Howard Kunstler

Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment credentials.
They had never worked on a story together. Woodward was 29, Bernstein 28.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward — Carl Bernstein

I'm as happy doing 'Postman Pat' as I am doing 'Hamlet.' — David Tennant

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you. — Claire Danes

You will get what you wish for. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus told His disciples that the "world," meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians. — Billy Graham

I supposed that when anyone accustomed to working with the mind is faced with a straightforward action, there's a tendency to embellish, to make it overly clever. On paper there's a certain symmetry. Now that I'm faced with the prospect of executing it I realize how hideously complicated it is. — Donna Tartt

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. — John Maeda

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come. — Armando Iannucci