Mediascape Examples Quotes & Sayings

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. — Joss Whedon

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels — Elinor Ostrom

Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out. — Elaine De Kooning

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown. — James Marsden

Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes. — Stacy Allison

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. — Diane Setterfield

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured. — Andrew Coyne

When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong. — Robin Lopez

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. — Stephen King

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The only guarantee, ever, is that things will go wrong. The only thing we can use to mitigate this is anticipation. Because the only variable we control completely is ourselves. — Ryan Holiday

Veteran trader Marty O'Connell calls this the firehouse effect. He had observed that firemen with much downtime who talk to each other for too long come to agree on many things that an outside, impartial observer would find ludicrous (they develop political ideas that are very similar). Psychologists give it a fancier name, but my friend Marty has no training in behavioral sciences. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons. — Orison Swett Marden

It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness ... — James Joyce