Melancthon Jacobus Quotes & Sayings

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear. — Robert Krulwich

Some people write books, others paint masterpieces — Masterpieces From Brooklyn Museum

Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives ... — Michael Leunig

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water. — Fisher Ames

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place. — Philip Pullman

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era. — Marianne Faithfull

To consider possibilities was to open yourself up to pain. — Cassandra Clare

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was? — Zadie Smith

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment. — Dale Carnegie

One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'. — Nick Earls

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself. — Jean Arthur

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music. — Lillian Hellman