Quotes About Open Forum

#1. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#2. Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.

Andrey Kurkov

#3. I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

Andre Rieu

#4. Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought.

Napoleon Hill

#5. Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#6. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

Alfred E. Perlman

#7. After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

Darynda Jones

#8. Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

Mohsin Hamid

#9. When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

Mario Batali

#10. If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

Harvey Milk

#11. Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Isaac Stern

#12. When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

Ted Turner

#13. There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Marina Abramovic

#15. Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.

Samuel Johnson

#16. In a larger business context, an example of the "Genius of the And" would be a company's constant attention to both long-term growth and quarterly results.

Peter Pande