Sydney J. Harris Quotes

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986

Topics

CommunicationWordsGivingTwoOut

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

John Grisham

FairHardJudgmentAlwaysGetRush

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

John McCarthy

GolfSameDifferentAboutCourses

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

Robert Reich

WarPeopleWorldPoliticalUnions

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

Matthew Desmond

PoorHousingRealizationRoleHow

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock

LifeDayLearnEvery DayLateHour

For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Kern was a great leader of that because he had the classical training of Europe. He impressed all the greatest composers, like Cole Porter and Gershwin. They couldn't believe he was writing the songs he was writing.

Tony Bennett

LeaderGreatTrainingWritingEurope

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Rogers Hornsby

TimeSorryFeelHelpHandsSound

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Livy

HonorFallDesireSometimesMore

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Don Rickles

KissMindYouBackRingRoom

I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.

Chris Eigeman

WorkFunnyLoveHomeGoing HomeUp

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

David Walliams

FearMyselfThoughtsStartThink

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Chester Bennington

LifeMusicMyselfPainMeNegative

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