Famous quotes containing the words comic and/or book:
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
—C. Wright Mills (191662)
“I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatableany real insight or broad human sentiment.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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