Quotes About Nytimes

#1. So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home."
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)

Nick Bilton

#2. Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB, NYTimes, Slate and maybe Facebook.

J.R. Moehringer

#3. Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Charles M. Blow

#4. I say, seeking to diminish the human dignity of another whose only crime is not loving whom you would have him or her love is immoral and an offense to the indomitable determination of the heart.

Charles M. Blow

#5. If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

Evgeny Morozov

#7. While many believers walk around with a guilty conscience and feel disqualified to receive God's promises, we are able to enter a level of freedom that assures us we are qualified at any moment to boldly enter His presence, to shine with His glory, and to do great exploits for His kingdom.

Katherine Ruonala

#8. Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.

Brent Staples

#9. When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

Fred Ward

#10. To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

Quentin Tarantino

#11. A faithful leader shall surely become a fruitful leadear

Oladosu Feyikogbon

#12. New Testament Christians did not witness because they had to but because they could not help it.

Richard Halverson

#13. An idea does not survive because it is better than the competition, but rather because the person who holds it has survived! Accordingly,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. Memory is more indelible than ink.

Anita Loos

#15. I always, always wanted to be the Dungeon Master because that's where the creativity lies - in thinking up places, characters and situations. If done well, a game can be a novel in itself.

Sharyn McCrumb

#16. You don't have to dumb it down, but you do have to sum it up.

Charles M. Blow

#17. I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.

Tamora Pierce

#18. The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.

Marc Riboud

#19. The living world is not a single array ... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#20. Demon," the woman spat onto the road. "Well, girl, thank you. I grant no one's wishes and so you mark me 'demon.' I grant no wishes and I do as I see fit to be done. I will not answer to you, girl, nor to any one of yours, but I will always look. I am not the one who turns away.

Tamara Rendell

#21. People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

A.J. Liebling

#22. Be strong enough to stand up again, even after haters make you drop to your knees.

T.D. Jakes

#23. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.

Daniel Menaker

#24. Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.

Charles M. Blow