(6 quotes found)
“May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!”
William Shakespeare
“Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours.”
William Cowper
“One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity”
Samuel Johnson
“I ache in my chest. It's pernicious. It's deadly. It gets in there, and it's infectious.”
Paul Allen
“Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society”
Marguerite Blessington
“[The influence of these huge and powerful corporations on the media leads to a pernicious kind of censorship. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of these corporations own and control the media. In 1996 the Seagram Company ran a whiskey ad on an NBC affiliate in Texas, thus breaking the decades-old tradition of liquor ads not being carried on television. Although network television is leery of running liquor ads for fear of offending their beer advertisers, Advertising Age reported that Seagram might have a] winning card to play, ... If Seagram came to us with a hard-liquor ad, we'd have to look at it.”
Cartoon Network
