“You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“Last quarter, Twitter beat Wall Street’s estimates when it came to adding new users, but ad revenue declined year-on-year for the first time since it became a public company.”— Lara O’Reilly, wsj.com
“I asked Jesus to fix me, and when he did not answer I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn.”— Lee Mokobe, ted.com
“Apple Music said in December that it had more than 20 million subscribers, most of whom pay $9.99 a month; Spotify counted more than 40 million paying subscribers in September.”— Ben Fritz, Hannah Karp, Tripp Mickle, wsj.com
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”— Mary Ann Shaffer, amazon.com
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”— Stephen King, books.google.com
“Begging for attention really sums up the problem we face in this country with our media. There is such competition that they’re more interested in entertaining their audience than educating them. They like me because I help them attract more viewers. They hate me because they know I don’t need them.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“The lowbrow way of forgetting oneself is to get drunk, to be diverted with entertainments, or to exploit such natural means of self-transcendence as sexual intercourse. The highbrow way is to throw oneself into the pursuit of the arts, of social service, or of religious mysticism. These measures are…”— Alan W Watts, amazon.com