You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. – Walter Lippmann
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. – Walter Lippmann
And then I went to Dawsons Creek, which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which Id never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasnt my favorite working experience. – Busy Philipps