| "Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control." Allen Ginsberg |
| "Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it." Russel Lynes |
| "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." Soren Kierkegaard |
| "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once." Cyril Connolly, (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938) |
| "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." Henry Boye |
| "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 - 2005. |
| "Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them." James J. Jordan, Jr. |
| "With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." Hunter S. Thompson |
| "Television is chewing gum for the eyes." Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "Honesty is the single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product." Ed McMahon |
| "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country." Margaret Thatcher |
| "Perfection only exists in the figment of one's imagination, one should rather embrace a spirit of excellence, which moves from a premise that there is always room for improvement." Thembelani Vanqa |
| "I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." Bethania McKenstry |
| "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926. |
| "There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time." Jef I. Richards, 1999. |
| "To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question." Eric Hoffer |
| "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." Arthur Miller |
| "A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts." William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918. |
| "I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum." Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| "The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." Salvador Dali |
| "Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them." David Ogilvy |
| "A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." Henry Fielding |
| "Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." Rita Mae Brown |
| "There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two." Bertolt Brecht |
| "Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication." Claus Oldenburg |
| "A career is born in public - talent in privacy." Marilyn Monroe |
| "Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." Clive Barnes, in New York Times. |
| "When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly." John O'Toole, The Trouble with Advertising ... ,1981. |
| "In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and philosopher, (c. 106 - 43 BC). |
| "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true." Henry Kissinger |
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