Media First United Quotes

#1. Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Richard Bach

#2. Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Mario Batali

#3. what is a dream but a series of lies designed to keep us immobilized in a dark room for hours at a time

Mallory Ortberg

#4. The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

Gore Vidal

#5. It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

Austin Kleon

#6. People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Lyn Hejinian

#7. Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

Garth Nix

#8. Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Rebecca West

#9. I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

Marissa Mayer

#10. Life without kids is like a camera without film.

Dirk Benedict