Dumbification Quotes

#1. Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

Rachel Sklar

#2. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.

Margaret Atwood

#3. If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Associations are both subtle and powerful.

Jim Rohn

#5. Life is going on even if you are not on the train.

Debasish Mridha

#6. You look nice in those old slacks, but in the raw you are Beauty herself.

Kenneth Patchen

#7. And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

Tommy Cooper

#8. I am strategically and methodically preparing leaders in a more result oriented setting.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need to do something.' So you do need the breath of scepticism, not cynicism, breathing on them.

David Blunkett

#10. Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.

Ne-Yo