Access Quotes - Page 6

• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Thinking, Media

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Quality, Village, Grew Up

  "Access to Quality Education" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Keys, Play

  "Access to Quality Education" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Men, Fire, Kitchen

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• As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Data, Hype, People

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• The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

  Howard Rheingold

  Internet Access, Cnn, People

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• Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Pay, Journalism, Infinite

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• Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

  Oliver Sacks

  Depression, Moving, Orange Juice

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• Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Flower, Inspiration, Humility

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• Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

  John Dewey

  Doe, Add, Inquiry

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.238, University of Illinois Press

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• Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chaos, Choke, True Peace

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier success is based on literary merit -- that the public understands true greatness in ways the tight-a**ed, consumed-by-jealousy literary establishment cannot. This idea is ridiculous, a product of vanity and insecurity.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Greatness, Ideas

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• Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.198, Penguin

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• I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Heart, People

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• No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Ears

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.

  Daniel Handler

  Glasses, Order, Cake

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• The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Dog, Children, Thinking

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Keys, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

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• Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.

  Banksy

  Real, Oil, People

  "Banksy: The Graffitist Goes Straight". www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2009.

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• In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.

  William P. Young

  Book, Communication, Voice

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, books.google.ru. June 20, 2008.

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• I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they can’t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Depression, Unique, Essence

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Numbers, Fiction, Television

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• Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let them imagine that this combat among women is not inevitable. Surgeons can now do anything. We have not yet reached the age in which we can defend ourselves with an unwillingness to have "anything" done. This is a dangerous time. New possibilities for women quickly become new obligations.

  Naomi Wolf

  Struggle, Age, Done

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• Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Depression, Years, Black

  Sebastian Faulks (2000). “Charlotte Gray: A Novel”, Vintage

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