John Hockenberry Quotes

#1. Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

John Hockenberry

#2. I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you'll die.

Cedric Go

#3. The balance between the paralysing hurt of losing the people you love and the absolute glorious revelation of finding the one person that makes you happier than you've ever been. Someone who makes you so happy that you stare into your future and finally look forward to it.

Beckie Stevenson

#4. John Grisham exhaled, feeling his breath leave his body as he did, like his wife's yoga instructor had taught him to do that one time. He never went back to that yoga instructor, but he still thought about that session sometimes.

B.J. Novak

#5. In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

John Hockenberry

#6. The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

John Hockenberry

#7. Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

John Hockenberry

#8. The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

John Hockenberry

#9. The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.

Dave Willis

#10. At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.

John Hockenberry

#11. I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Criss Jami

#12. An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

John Hockenberry

#13. Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.

Coleman Hawkins

#14. I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

John Hockenberry

#15. You alone know whether it will harm your soul to help an old man avoid pain and humiliation, said Dumbledore.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

Robert Breault

#17. The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself

Kelly Braffet

#18. When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

J.C. Ryle

#19. I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.

Richard Seymour

#20. Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

Carl Sagan

#21. Hi,' he said. He always said it like he was terrifically bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he was visiting you or anything. He wanted you to think he'd come in by mistake, for God's sake.

J.D. Salinger