Home / Quotes / Quote by Jon Stewart

Quote by Jon Stewart

“On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.”

Author

Jon Stewart, born on November 28, 1962, is an American satirist, comedian, writer, and television host. He is best known for his work on 'The Daily Show', where he used satire and humor to deeply analyze American politics and social issues. more

“The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)”

World Bigs Economic Figures Revolution Genius Internet Politician Gains Access Mediums Dramatic Industrial Revolution Big Changes Cusp

Author:Steven Levy

“Extreme justice is often injustice.”

Justice Injustice Extremes

Author:Jean Racine

“The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.”

Fashion Spring Wings Delight Tiny Statements Disguise Orange Dots Kites Miniatures Fashion Statement Ladybugs

Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.”

Ifs Men Long Feelings Running Turns Marriage Wife Paid Enormous Consideration Peculiar Long Runs Coins Inflation Unthinkable

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.”

Letters Chains Flu

Author:Bob Garfield

“[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.”

Needs Purpose Existence Fulfilling

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.”

Stills Spiritual Values Integrity Pressure Forgetfulness Clutter Promiscuous

Author:Baker Brownell

“The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.”

Literature Sermons Poppies

Author:David Swing

“As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.”

Wells Light Air Fields Demand Bird Setting Settings Desert Charm Dull Shade Quotations Inquiry Framework Philosophic Sandy

Author:David Swing

“Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.”

Wells Earth Hate Stars Hurt Marriage Tears Flower Laughter Empty Protected Magnificent Mud Ugliness Mixtures Splendid Love And Hate Guarded

Book:Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

Quote by Jon Stewart

Author

You May Also Like