Alain De Botton News Quotes

#1. The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

Ben Hogan

#2. My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.

Robert Ingpen

#3. We shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing our vulnerability.

Alain De Botton

#4. Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

Alain De Botton

#5. He saw her seldom now, and the phantom of cradle songs had almost faded from his brain.

Stephen King

#6. The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

William Bennett

#7. An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.

Alain De Botton

#9. Web traffic figures for the BBC news website:

Alain De Botton

#10. In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation.

Alain De Botton

#11. Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light ... ' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that.

Gene Pitney

#12. Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

Michael W. Smith

#13. He did an excellent Tarik impression, bringing his voice low and softly accenting the ends of his sentences. Scrubber, his raccoon, flailed and squirmed on the ground, pretending to be Monte himself. It was a light moment in the

Eliot Schrefer

#14. The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.

Alain De Botton

#15. I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

Vivienne Westwood

#16. I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.

Ringo Starr

#17. The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#18. When you fall in love with someone's personality everything about them becomes beautiful.

Reeva Steenkamp

#19. You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

Peter Shilton

#20. The news had, for Flaubert, armed stupidity and given authority to fools.

Alain De Botton