Kotatsu Table Quotes & Sayings

The defining characteristic of today's intellectual and media elite is that it swims merrily in a sea of fantasy. The world of television is essentially a fantasy world, and television is today's [1980's] common denominator of communication, today's unifying American experience. This has frightening implications for the future. Ideas that fit on bumper stickers are not ideas at all, they simply are attitudes. And attitudinizing is no substitute for analysis. Unfortunately, too often television is to news as bumper stickers are to philosophy, and this has a corrosive effect on public understanding of those issues on which national survival may depend. — Richard M. Nixon

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. — Ninon De L'Enclos

But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down. — Robert Penn Warren

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. — Jimmy Carter

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom. — Rebecca Adamson

I believe I'm just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation ... If you're open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder! — Oprah Winfrey

If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing. — Norman Vincent Peale

The president receives an inspector general's report that the Office of Personnel Management could be hacked into; they had antiquated firewalls; 23 million files have been - are in the hands of the Chinese allegedly, including, by the way, members of the press, it turns out, last week. Maybe that's the only part that's good news, so that you guys can get a feel for what it's like now to see this type of attack. — Jeb Bush

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do. — Noureen DeWulf

She talked that night of all those out in the dark (she was thinking of Esteban alone, she was thinking of Pepita alone) who had no one to turn to, for whom the world perhaps was more than difficult, without meaning. — Thornton Wilder

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things. — Gardner Dozois

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things. — Vera Farmiga

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it. — Raul Labrador