Help Us Add Quotations to the Rotation
When you visit the Idea Grove, the bottom of each page on our site features a variety of quotations — mostly related to image-making and the PR and media businesses. Each time you refresh the page, you see a new quote.
Some of our favorites:
Napoleon: “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
Shakespeare: “Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.”
Larry McMurtry (from Hud): “Little by little, the face of the country changes because of the men we admire.”
Mahatma Gandhi: “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
We’re ready to add some new quotations to the rotation. Any suggestions?
Unfortunately I cannot remember the occassion, but at one point Bill Clinton said there is no such thing as the press by which I took him to mean that it was not a monolith.
How about another one from Shakespeare (Hamlet, act 1, sc. 7)?
I have bought
Golden opinion from all sorts of people.
Or my most recent favorite, from John Cale’s “Black Acetate”:
“I write reams of this shit every day.”
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. — H. L. Mencken
Constantine: Brilliant.
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” - PJ O’Rourke
When the system allows legislators to be bought and sold, buying and selling will never be controlled by legislation. All such legislation — as well as consumer protections — will be overturned by said purchased legislators.
Don’t be hating on P.J.
He’s saying “it happens,” not “it ought to happen.”
I’ve met him. Insufferable ass, but in the way that belies extreme talent. A perfect drinking companion.
I think P.J. is brilliant — but he also has political blinders on, in my opinion.
But then, I’m sure someone might say the same about me…
A) I think PJ is one of the funniest writers around. To say we have a different political views would be putting it mildly. Parliament of Whores should be required reading in every intro to US government class ever taught. And, if you go back and read his reporting from the Phillipines and Korea, you realize he’s a pretty good reporter when he gets out in the field, which he doesn’t do that much anymore.
B) Another from Mencken: No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
C) FNORD.
Apologies. The correct quote is: No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.