Blog Quotes

#1. Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

Mark Cuban

#2. I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.

Biz Stone

#3. I checked out your blog.'
Oh. Dear. Baby. Jesus. How did he find it? Wait. More importantly was the fact he HAD found it. Was my blog now googleable? That was awesomesauce with an extra heaping of sauce.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

Hanna Rosin

#5. It's the simple things in life that comprise the difference between existing and living.
(from blog post on October 26, 2013, original content)

Cora Carmack

#6. I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.

Joe Budden

#7. I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

Justin Amash

#8. Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

Jason Calacanis

#9. People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

Jenny Lawson

#10. Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

Zach Galligan

#11. The primary claim made by the IPCC and other warmists was that there was a 'consensus' among the world's scientists, but anyone familiar with science knows that it does not operate on consensus.
--Shouting from the Rooftops, Warning Signs blog, December 20, 2012

Alan Caruba

#12. Juno: Honest to blog?

Diablo Cody

#13. The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.

Seth Godin

#14. I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

Bryan Burrough

#15. I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!

Megan Amram

#16. A call for authors... to arms!!!
(Actually, to pens.) O_O

Check out my latest blog post (via my profile), for more faboo 411!!!

Fear ye NOT the contest!!!

William McDonald

#17. The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

Sara Genn

#18. One of the best things about having a blog is that you've got a place to run your craziest ideas up the flagpole and see just how quickly they get shot down.

Steven D. Levitt

#19. Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

Jason Calacanis

#20. If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Ben Stein

#21. I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

Kara Swisher

#22. As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#23. If you want your blog to be a business one day, treat it as one today.

Darren Rowse

#24. The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.

Stephen Colbert

#25. A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent 'post' (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

Darren Rowse

#26. Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

John Jay Hooker

#27. Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays.

Kate Christensen

#28. Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

Sky Ferreira

#29. Absolutely no one writes their most intimate feelings and deep, dark secrets in a diary anymore! WHY?! Because just one or two people knowing all your BIZ could completely ruin your reputation. You're supposed to post this kind of juicy stuff online in your BLOG so MILLIONS can read it!!!

Rachel Renee Russell

#30. When I started my blog, it was really this one goal - I said, 'I am not going to be famous to the world, but I could be famous to people on the Internet.' And I set a goal. I said, 'I'm going to win an award,' because I had never won an award in my entire life.

Mena Grabowski Trott

#31. I started my blog as an online diary. I moved to New York for a job, and I kind of wanted to keep my pictures all in one place. Also, I just love style blogs and wanted to join in on the fun!

Ashley Madekwe

#32. I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

Ellen Potter

#33. Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.

Hanneli Mustaparta

#34. I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

J. B. Smoove

#35. As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'

Nick Denton

#36. Not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise - in colorful and provocative ways - that can be a hard case to make.

Mary DeTurris Poust

#37. I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

A-Trak

#38. "...What about my life? My blog?" Okay, my blog was seriously the least of my worries, but dammit, it was important to me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#39. With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.

Ice-T

#40. No matter how much we tweet, blog and post, nothing in business is as powerful as actual face time with prospective business partners and customers.

Jay Samit

#41. That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I'm kind of glad he hit you.

Lev Grossman

#42. I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#43. If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

Al Michaels

#44. At the end of the day this is nothing more than a blog. It's nice to hit them high notes - but REALLY - how significant do you think something that sort of sounds like the sound of a flatulent frog being run over by a clown car really needs to be?

Steve Vernon

#45. I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

Ree Drummond

#46. Everyone has their different tastes in regards to power, just like everyone has their different tastes for food or sex. My bread and butter is feeling like my mind and my ideas are shaping the world around me, which is of course why I bother writing the blog.

M.E. Thomas

#47. People used to ask me questions on my blog about how to break into the acting industry. You often have to start out in parts where you have very few words, but you still have to try to make an impact.

Stephen Amell

#48. We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!).
-Fang's Blog

James Patterson

#49. Don't blog what you don't own.

Lisa Williams

#50. Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

Phil Cooke

#51. Write a prescribed amount every day. I find it easiest to assign myself to write a single blog post every day,

Tynan

#52. Experimentation and Adaptation The best, most solid way out of a crisis in a changing market is through experiment and adaptation. - Richard's Blog, November 27, 2008

Danielle McLimore

#53. A blog is something that, everyday there's a new thing and that's part of the fun of it, you're just constantly moving forward. A book really gives you more time to reflect and think hard on things very, very deep.

Gretchen Rubin

#54. I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

Bai Ling

#55. When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.'

River Viiperi

#56. I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.

Jason Mraz

#57. Keeping a 'CEO blog' or 'founder's blog' can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.

Kathryn Minshew

#58. It was come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCI's Garden -otherwise what would be the point? Readers were welcomed to a virtual place where emotions were respected and affirmed, and encouragement was offered to those who longed to know that wounded hearts can heal - even if it takes a lifetime.

EsthersChild

#59. I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

Stephanie Nielson

#60. I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.

Mark Lawrence

#61. I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.

Evan Williams

#62. I twisted words, phrases, and idioms around,
and deftly nixed the budding metaphor bounds.
Voila, a virtual book in a blog became softbound!

Rebecca Rose Orton

#63. If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.

Dasha Zhukova

#64. When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

Jenna Fischer

#65. If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

Ayelet Waldman

#66. The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Liz Phair

#67. 03 If your company has the resources to sustain its own blog with educational, non-promotional content on a regular basis you should invest in authoring a blog.

Sarah-Jane White

#68. Most blogs have very low readership - perhaps only the blogger's mother or best friend reads them - but even writing for one person, compared to writing for nobody, seems to be enough to compel millions of people to blog.

Dan Ariely

#69. Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.
[Blog post of July 26, 2011]

Jim C. Hines

#70. In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Jami Attenberg

#71. The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#72. Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.

Gillian Flynn

#73. I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

Craig Ferguson

#74. Why do people do this?'
'Blog, you mean? I don't know ... didn't someone once say the unexamined life isn't worth living?'
'Yeah, Plato,' said Strike, 'but this isn't examining a life, it's exhibiting it.

Robert Galbraith

#75. I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.

Keri Smith

#76. Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.
BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox

#77. Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing as many articles as possible, but I've realized over the years that you cannot sacrifice quality if you wish to build a loyal following on your blog.

Jeet Banerjee

#78. You can extend the life of your most popular blog posts by turning them into SlideShare presentations. Peg

Guy Kawasaki

#79. I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.

Burton Cummings

#80. It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

Jenny Lawson

#81. Dear Victor: This bath towel was wet and you left it on the floor and it was the last clean one in the house. I'm pretty sure this is how tuberculosis is spread. I'm writing all this in my blog in case I end up dead because of your carelessness.

Jenny Lawson

#82. I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

Andy Cohen

#83. Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

Stewart Butterfield

#84. Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as "not Christian enough" or just a little theologically lacking?

Nick Rynerson

#85. What was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles

James Patterson

#86. It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

Fred Wilson

#87. It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.

Jeremy Denk

#88. Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Mark Cuban

#89. Hillary Clinton is under fire from Latinos, specifically online. This comes from a recent blog post by Clinton's campaign that was meant to reach out to Latinos. Instead, it offended many people.

Ari Shapiro

#90. Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.

Mark Cuban

#91. Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

Nick Denton

#92. Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

Paulo Coelho

#93. Never change the URL of your blog. I've done it once, and I lost much of my readership. It took several months to build up the same reader patterns and trust.

Robert Scoble

#94. I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)

Gail Carriger

#95. I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

Dylan Moran

#96. I was like, 'I want to start a blog to get my ideas out and keep my brain working so in five years I'm not an idiot.'

Katie Nolan

#97. That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

Anthony Jeselnik

#98. I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

Sarah Dessen

#99. I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#100. It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

Mark Batterson