News famous quotes
04-24-2025
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
-- Aaron McGruder -
She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
-- Adam McKay -
I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.
-- Adora Svitak -
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
-- Adrienne Rich -
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
-- Aeschylus -
No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
News is only the first rough draft of history.
-- Alan Barth -
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isnt to solve the worlds problems. My character wasnt even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- theres no hope unless we do that.
-- Albert Brooks -
The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.
-- Albert Low -
It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.
-- Alex Ferguson -
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
-- Alex Steffen -
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
-- Alice Stewart -
I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.
-- Alysia Reiner -
Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings
-- Amit Abraham -
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
-- Amy Hempel -
While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media,
-- Amy Jo Martin -
When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.
-- Andrea Hirata -
... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
-- Andrea Mitchell -
I have enjoyed anchoring at 'Headline News' but have decided that it is time for me to make a change in my daily professional life.
-- Andrea Thompson -
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.
-- Andy Cohen -
I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.
-- Andy Cohen -
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.
-- Angelina Jolie -
I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.
-- Angelina Jolie -
I know you have bad news,†I say softly. “I’m ready for it.†But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.
-- Ann Aguirre -
[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.
-- Anna Magnani -
Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.
-- Anne Lamott -
When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth.
-- Anthony Weiner -
Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.
-- Arthur Christiansen -
News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.
-- Barack Obama -
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
-- Barbara Kruger -
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
-- Barbara Walters -
To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
-- Ben Bradlee -
It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.
-- Ben Heppner -
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
-- Ben Jonson -
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.
-- Bernard Baruch -
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
-- Bette Midler -
Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.
-- Bill Kurtis -
Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.
-- Bill Maher -
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
-- Bill Moyers -
If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
-- Billy Bragg -
Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.
-- Billy Crystal -
The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.
-- Billy Graham -
"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."
-- Billy Graham -
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
-- Bob Brown -
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
-- Bob Hope -
Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
-- Bob Keeshan -
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
-- Bob Schaffer -
We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
-- Bob Schieffer -
When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
-- Boris Becker -
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
-- Brennan Manning -
I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
-- Brian Grazer -
If the news is that important, it will find me.
-- Brian Stelter -
I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.
-- Brit Hume -
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.
-- Bruce Davison -
if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
-- Bruce Schneier -
I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens.
-- Bruce Schneier -
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
-- Burton Malkiel -
When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.
-- C. P. Scott -
Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.
-- Camille Paglia -
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
-- Carl Bernstein -
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
-- Carl Bernstein -
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
-- Carl F. H. Henry -
The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
-- Charles A. Dana -
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
-- Charles Jencks -
It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
-- Charlie Sheen -
I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.
-- Chelsea Handler -
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.
-- Cher -
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.
-- Chris Hayes -
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
-- Chris Hondros -
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
-- Chris Hughes
