#lists

We have to draw the line somewhere. I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists. ↗

— Jack T. Chick

#hit #i #line #lists #many

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#different #first #first time #had #i

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#against #difficult #fundamentalism #fundamentalists #increasing

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#future generations #generations #hands #journalists #mould

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#everyone #generally #interesting #interesting stuff #kind

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#transcendentalists #men

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible. ("The Wendigo") ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#materialst #rational-thought #rationalists #rationality #intelligence

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#money #publishers #publishing #money

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5). ↗

— Lauro Martines

#context #historians #history #memory #moralists

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#truth #writers #writing #nature