Top 100 Murdoch's Quotes
#1. People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?
Andy Kindler
#2. The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
Sumner Redstone
#3. People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
Meredith Whitney
#4. The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.
Nick Davies
#5. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
Margo Kingston
#6. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
#7. Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.
Nick Davies
#8. My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.
Rupert Murdoch
#9. Annie said her prayers, read her Bible, and tried not to forget God. Ah! could she only have known that God never forgot her, whether she forgot him or not, giving her sleep in her dreary garret, gladness even in Murdoch Malison's school-room, and the light of life everywhere!
George MacDonald
#10. Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower ...
Iris Murdoch
#11. ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.
Rupert Murdoch
#12. Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.
James Murdoch
#13. There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
Rupert Murdoch
#14. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
#15. Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#16. Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
Rupert Murdoch
#17. Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat
'
'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.
Iris Murdoch
#18. I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.
Rupert Murdoch
#19. We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
Rupert Murdoch
#20. It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
Rupert Murdoch
#21. My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.
Rupert Murdoch
#22. In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch
#23. I try to keep in touch with the details ... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.
Rupert Murdoch
#24. People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.
Rupert Murdoch
#25. I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.
James Murdoch
#26. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Iris Murdoch
#27. The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man.
Iris Murdoch
#28. As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.
Rupert Murdoch
#30. But it's the eyes that hold me captive, empty of concentric creek ripples and breezy tree branches playing the sky like my bow plays my violin.
Emily Murdoch
#31. A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
Iris Murdoch
#32. Half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.
Iris Murdoch
#33. That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
Iris Murdoch
#34. Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease.
Iris Murdoch
#35. Mama says no matter how poor folks are, whether you're a have, a have-not, or break your mama's back on the cracks in between, the world gives away the best stuff on the cheap
Emily Murdoch
#36. What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.
Iris Murdoch
#37. The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products.
Rupert Murdoch
#38. I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.
Emily Murdoch
#39. My sister don't talk much. When she does, it's only to me, in moth-winged whispers, and only when we're alone.
Emily Murdoch
#40. It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
Elisabeth Murdoch
#41. Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.
Iris Murdoch
#42. As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.
Iris Murdoch
#43. The Murdoch-owned 'Sunday Times' has an appalling history of involvement in illegal activity. And it's because they're Sunday papers; they're trying to get scoops that the dailies haven't got.
Nick Davies
#44. When caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?
Iris Murdoch
#45. Being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.
Iris Murdoch
#46. The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft.
Lachlan Murdoch
#47. There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
Iris Murdoch
#48. And oh, when we still used to sleep together, lying awake at night and finding one's only consolation in imagining in detail how one would go downstairs and find a hatchet and smash one's partners head in and mash it into a bloody pudding on the pillow!
Iris Murdoch
#49. Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.
Iris Murdoch
#50. Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.
Matthew Freud
#51. One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch
#52. Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
#53. My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.
Emily Murdoch
#54. I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.
Iris Murdoch
#55. I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
Rupert Murdoch
#56. 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
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you write from a place that's very personal and quite isolated, at least for me, there's something that almost doesn't feel natural about it.
Alexi Murdoch
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Funny how we can't hold onto time, even when it's strapped to our wrists
Emily Murdoch
#69. 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
#70. Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
Iris Murdoch
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
Iris Murdoch
#74. I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Iris Murdoch
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
Iris Murdoch
#78. One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
Iris Murdoch
#79. To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.
Iris Murdoch
#80. We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch
#81. I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#82. An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.
Alan Sugar
#83. Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
Rupert Murdoch
#84. I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.
Rupert Murdoch
#85. It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
Iris Murdoch
#86. But it's like the feeling you get at the end of a book you love.
Stuart Murdoch
#87. My stomach squirms like worms (in a good way) just thinking about him. And I reckon when love's in short supply, you know it all the more when it finds you.
Emily Murdoch
#88. Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'
Rupert Murdoch
#89. The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler
#90. CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.
Rupert Murdoch
#91. If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal ... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.
Rupert Murdoch
#92. Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.
Rupert Murdoch
#93. We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.
Emily Murdoch
#94. It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.
Rupert Murdoch
#95. What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods
even extended ones
of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
Alexi Murdoch
#96. I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
Rupert Murdoch
#97. In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
Thomas Frank
#98. I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?
Rachel Weisz
#99. Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.
Rupert Murdoch
#100. Who dat dere's gunna beat dat team? Who Dat? Who dat?
Dick Murdoch
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