Top 100 Murdoch Quotes
#1. I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?
Tom Hanks
#2. People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
Iris Murdoch
#3. I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Iris Murdoch
#4. Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
Iris Murdoch
#5. I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#6. We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.
Rupert Murdoch
#7. But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris Murdoch
#8. If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power . . . - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
Christopher Buckley
#9. The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
Iris Murdoch
#10. Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Iris Murdoch
#11. Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch
#12. Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
Iris Murdoch
#13. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
Iris Murdoch
#14. Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.
Iris Murdoch
#15. So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
Iris Murdoch
#16. I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
Rupert Murdoch
#17. One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
Rupert Murdoch
#18. Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.
Alexander Murdoch Mackay
#19. Thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.
Iris Murdoch
#20. Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
Iris Murdoch
#21. We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
Rupert Murdoch
#22. (I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')
Iris Murdoch
#23. Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ...
Iris Murdoch
#24. It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.
Iris Murdoch
#25. Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off.
Iris Murdoch
#26. Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.
Iris Murdoch
#27. Funny how we can't hold onto time, even when it's strapped to our wrists
Emily Murdoch
#28. The whole extraordinary business was over. And I was back where I belonged, where my childhood had condemned me to be, alone, out in the cold without a coat.
Iris Murdoch
#29. There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch
#30. Evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
Iris Murdoch
#31. He dreamt ... he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was.
Iris Murdoch
#32. Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
Rupert Murdoch
#33. Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris Murdoch
#35. God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.
Iris Murdoch
#36. Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
Rupert Murdoch
#37. I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#38. I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.
Richard Murdoch
#39. What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
Iris Murdoch
#41. Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
Iris Murdoch
#42. What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?
Rupert Murdoch
#43. At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.
Rupert Murdoch
#44. My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.
Emily Murdoch
#45. Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch
#46. time. Some of my friends think that Finn is cracked, but
Iris Murdoch
#48. Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner
#49. Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.
Iris Murdoch
#50. How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience?
James Murdoch
#51. No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch
#52. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
Iris Murdoch
#53. Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
Keith Olbermann
#54. Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Iris Murdoch
#55. Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
Iris Murdoch
#56. How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light ... I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners.
Iris Murdoch
#57. Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going.
Glenn Beck
#58. It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.
Iris Murdoch
#60. I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch
#61. The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch
#62. Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
Iris Murdoch
#63. When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.
Iris Murdoch
#64. Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.
Rupert Murdoch
#65. Any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.
Iris Murdoch
#66. Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.
James Murdoch
#67. The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.
Rupert Murdoch
#68. A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.
Rupert Murdoch
#69. The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
Iris Murdoch
#70. We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ... the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
Rupert Murdoch
#71. I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
Rupert Murdoch
#72. Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
Rupert Murdoch
#73. You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue.
Iris Murdoch
#74. The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
Rupert Murdoch
#75. The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.
Robert Manne
#76. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.
Emily Murdoch
#77. Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends
and which redeems all the rest.
Iris Murdoch
#78. Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
Iris Murdoch
#79. They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
Iris Murdoch
#80. Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.
Charlie Munger
#81. I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.
Rupert Murdoch
#82. No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch
#83. To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
Iris Murdoch
#84. Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.
Rupert Murdoch
#85. In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
Iris Murdoch
#86. So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.
Rupert Murdoch
#87. We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.
Lachlan Murdoch
#88. Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision.
Iris Murdoch
#89. The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
Rupert Murdoch
#90. A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator as it grows fat and round. And then the book is born.
Emily Murdoch
#92. For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
Iris Murdoch
#93. Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense. And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.
Rupert Murdoch
#94. Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.
Iris Murdoch
#95. Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
Rupert Murdoch
#96. You don't respect me," said Dora, her voice trembling.
"Of course I don't respect you," said Paul. "Have I any reason to? I'm in love with you, unfortunately, that's all."
"Well, it's unfortunate for me too," said Dora, starting to cry.
Iris Murdoch
#97. Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.
Iris Murdoch
#98. Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
Iris Murdoch
#99. Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.
Rupert Murdoch
#100. Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
Iris Murdoch
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