Magazines Quotes - Page 38

• The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Baby, Block, School

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• If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

  Amy Heckerling

  Looks, Blank, Billboards

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.

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• I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

  Judd Apatow

  Film Critics, People, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

  John Updike

  Art, Book, Home

  John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Reading, Responsibility

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• The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.

  Richard E. Grant

  Fashion, Moving, Pace

  "My Perfect Weekend: Richard E Grant". Interview with Anna Tyzack, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 16, 2010.

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• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

  Ted Allen

  Home, Long, Chicago

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  Ted Allen

  Wine, White, Cake

  "Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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• What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

  Harrison Ford

  Morning, Citizens, News

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• I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

  Philip K. Dick

  Twelve, Firsts, Science Fiction

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Pantheon

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• Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

  Alison Bechdel

  Mad, Littles, Stuff

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• I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Stars, Reality, Illustration

  "Mary Ellen Mark on photography". Interview with D.K. Row, www.oregonlive.com. August 12, 2010.

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• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Drama, Practice

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• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Drawing, News, Film

  "Carlos Fuentes obituary" by Nick Caistor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dust, Two, Drawing

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• The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

  Fran Tarkenton

  New York, Book, Editors

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• I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

  Paula Yates

  Father, Parent, Together

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• I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

  Juliette Lewis

  Beautiful, Makeup, Perfect

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• A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.

  Gerhard Richter

  Suicide, Art, Illustration

  Gerhard Richter, Sean Rainbird, Tate Gallery (1991). “Gerhard Richter”, Tate Gallery Publication

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• But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Cutting, Irrelevance

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• What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Night, Phones

  "Dave Barry's Bad Habits". Book by Dave Barry, September 15, 1993.

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• If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Typewriters, Skills

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• A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.

  Frances Lear

  Jeans, Style, Jingles

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• As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, Adventure, Army

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