James Gordon Bennett Quotes

#1. Some people find oil. Others don't.

J. Paul Getty

#2. There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. The fans may be surprised to know that during my freshman year at Oglethorpe, I waited on tables and never made an error, never dropped a tray nor broke a dish.

Luke Appling

#4. There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#5. I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

James Gordon Bennett

#6. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Emil Cioran

#8. James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Harold Holzer

#9. Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

Lee Smolin

#10. Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Katherine Anne Porter

#11. Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification.

James Gordon Bennett

#12. Pope, who took breakfast with me, His Holiness said he had accepted JAMES GORDON BENNETT'S invitation to come to Washington Heights

Various

#13. An atheist is as religious as a theist.

Kedar Joshi

#14. The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841

Daniel Stashower