Stenographers Quotes

#1. The media - stenographers to power.

Amy Goodman

#2. You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Sydney Schanberg

#3. Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.

Stephen King

#4. This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit.

Tom Standage

#5. Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.

Glenn Greenwald

#8. Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers.

Anthony Esolen

#9. Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

Merlin Mann

#10. The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

#11. It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.

Arthur Miller

#12. She was ashamed. She would not
she would not
be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would keep.

Robin McKinley

#13. Lysimachus: Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at five or at seven?
Marina: Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.

William Shakespeare

#14. My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Albert Einstein

#15. I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Daphne Oz

#16. Conquest directed toward
the interior of the country is called repression or propaganda ("the first step on the road to hell," according
to Frank). Directed toward the exterior, it creates the army.

Albert Camus

#17. ThunderClan warriors don't kill unless they have to

Erin Hunter

#18. Believers saw it as a holy battle, a spiritual warfare at its height. Believers saw themselves in a spiritual war with demons and did not see flesh and blood. When being persecuted they had pity and love for the persecutors.

Greg Gordon