Henry Jenkins Convergence Culture Quotes

#1. I searched my soul, and discovered that there was nothing anywhere in my upbringing, experience, or even primal instincts to tell me how to react to someone who has quite simply, calmly, sitting right there in front of me, stolen one of my biscuits.

Douglas Adams

#2. I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

Edward Dahlberg

#3. There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

Edwin Louis Cole

#4. People blanch to see "fish meal" or "meat meal" on a pet-food ingredient panel, but meal
which variously includes organs, heads, skin, and bones
most closely resembles the diet of dogs and cats in the wild. Muscle meat is a grand source of protein, but comparatively little else.

Mary Roach

#5. There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

Jack Nicholson

#7. In writing the first edition of Japan's International Relations we aimed to provide a comprehensive analysis of Japan as a normal state, rather than as an aberrant or abnormal state.

Glenn D. Hook

#8. We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

Lady Gaga

#9. Don't mind these shitheads. I had to bring them, it's my turn to be designated driver. They won't kill our game, though, they hang in the kiddie section."
"No worries." Lincoln said.
"What?"
"No worries!" Lincoln wasn't worried. He didn't have any game to kill.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Life is a journey of astonishing beauty, and this is what makes life worth living.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Take away someone's fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty ... and you take away their compassion. Take away someone's aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

Veronica Roth

#12. A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

Man Ray

#13. Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

H.L. Mencken