Informing Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.

  Eoin Colfer

  Police, Next, Threatening

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.

  Alan Moore

  Long, World, Awful

  "Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical With Unearthing". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. August 9, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.

  Edward Bernays

  Mean, People, Three

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.3, University of Oklahoma Press

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Writing, Weekend, Email

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart. It is the place where stories live. And those stories have been informing my days, comforting my nights, and extending possibilities ever since. If that library had not been there, if the books - such as they were - had not been free, my world would be poor, even today.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Book, Heart, Night

  34 Copy quote

• Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

  Simon Mawer

  Powerful, Grief, Guilt

  Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.149, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Makeup, Hair, Interesting

  7 Copy quote

• Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.

  Kellyanne Conway

  America, Way, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

  Jonathan Glazer

  Scripts, Dialogue, Audience

  "INTERVIEW: Shooting the “Beast”; Jonathan Glazer Tames the Gangster Genre". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why make a biopic if it's not somehow helping us now? There's really no point. If it's not informing how we can do things differently now and maybe not repeat our mistakes, than why do this piece about this person or this event?

  Dustin Lance Black

  Mistake, Events, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.

  Nellie Fox

  Hurt, White, Philadelphia

  4 Copy quote

• No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dedication, People, Support

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• The truth is the committed left press in America is not longer interest in reporting the news. Anything that hinders a favorable view of the far left will be ignored; anything that advances liberal causes will be celebrated. News reporting today is largely about ideology and shaping the culture, not about informing the public.

  Bill O'Reilly

  America, Views, Today

  4 Copy quote

• (Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.

  William James

  Hands, Discovery, People

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.268, Routledge

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Photography, Decision, Directors

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not focus enough on the fact that the Fourth Amendment is on life support and that we need a return to transparency in government.

  Nat Hentoff

  Government, Media, Support

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

  John Locke

  Judging, Judgement, Prison

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.179

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.

  Trevor Noah

  Doors, Two, People

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society, a convenient rhetorical obfuscation that allows white Americans to ignore the institutional and individual racist ideologies, practices and policies that cripple any viable notion of justice and democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Practice, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Teacher, Children

  4 Copy quote

• I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein has these weapons, continues to attempt to improve their capability, and would not be reluctant to export them to other countries. So he presents a clear and present danger.

  John McCain

  Country, Thinking, Hussein

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. June 17, 2002.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better view of our folk concepts, but that it gives us a better view of knowledge, and the mind, and so on.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophical, Views, Giving

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

  Jim Toomey

  Ocean, Passionate, World

  4 Copy quote

• I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

  Nikki Reed

  Powerful, Thinking, Decision

  6 Copy quote

• Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ s kingdom:;; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.

  John Locke

  Jesus, Kings, Believe

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication”, p.233

  16 Copy quote

  Show source