Postliteracy Quotes & Sayings

Machinery which is not used is not capital. — Karl Marx

In the past, people could use their music because there are these bootlegs floating around that were supposedly public domain but they weren't, and now they've locked everything up and it's become really near impossible to use their music in movies. — George Ratliff

The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent — Joe Abercrombie

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence. — P. J. O'Rourke

Positive thoughts give positive energy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The bombs were coming-and so was I. — Markus Zusak

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence. — Robin Hoyle

When does she leave again?' He'd taken my hand now and was drawing me into him.
I pulled back but let him keep holding it. 'One week. Maybe we should go over appropriate topics of conversation.'
'Right, because otherwise I might bring up my career as a porn star or those years I spent in juvie. — Jessica Martinez

A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical. — Christina Abernathy

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. — Patrick Ness

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime. — Winston Churchill

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job. — Thomas Browne

She had not yet decided whether to use her power for good ... or for evil. — Anne Taintor

I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes. — Victoria Schwab

The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived very modestly, spent only a fraction of their earnings for their households and put the rest back into the business. — Ludwig Von Mises

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done. — Charles Kelley