"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."

-- William Cobbett

#Media Quotes #People Quotes #Long Quotes

“Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.”
“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory (1996). “Le Morte Darthur”, p.793, Wordsworth Editions
“I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.”
“I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.”
“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.”
“When God calls you to something, He is not always calling you to succeed, Heâ€™s calling you to obey! The success of the calling is up to Him;the obedience is up to you.”
“The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.”

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