Newspapers famous quotes
05-12-2025
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.
-- Aaron Levie -
It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
-- Alain de Botton -
Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers that is not freedom of the press.
-- Anastas Mikoyan -
You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.
-- Andrew Card -
Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.
-- Andrew Card -
My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.
-- Annalena McAfee -
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
-- Anthony Sampson -
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
-- Arthur Christiansen -
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
-- Arthur Miller -
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
-- Assata Shakur -
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
-- Ben Bradlee -
Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'
-- Bill Gross -
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
-- Bill James -
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
-- Bob Schieffer -
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
-- Bob Woodward -
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
-- Boss Tweed -
You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.
-- Brenda Fassie -
Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.
-- Carl Sandburg -
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
-- Charles Peguy -
Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
-- Chris Priestley -
A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
-- Claud Cockburn -
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
-- Clay Shirky -
Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
-- Daniel Okrent -
I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
-- Daniel Okrent -
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
-- Davy Jones -
People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.
-- Delia Parr -
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
-- Don Marquis -
Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.
-- Donald E. Graham -
If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.
-- Douglas Alexander -
For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
-- Elayne Boosler -
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.
-- Elizabeth Drew -
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
-- Ernest Bevin -
When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.
-- Frances Trollope -
Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
-- Franklin Knight Lane -
The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
-- George Harrison -
When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.
-- Glenn Beck -
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
-- Gordon Getty -
You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.
-- Harry S. Truman -
I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.
-- Heather Mills -
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
-- Henri Matisse -
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
-- Herbert Bayard Swope -
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
-- Horace Greeley -
Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.
-- Howell Raines -
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
-- James Fenton -
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
-- James G. Watt -
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
-- James K. Polk -
There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper.
-- Jay Baer -
Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
-- Jeff Lindsay -
All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.
-- Jennifer Rardin -
A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.
-- Jerry Coleman -
I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.
-- Jess Walter -
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.
-- Jim Bishop -
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
-- Jimmy Breslin -
I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.
-- Joanna Noelle Levesque -
I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
-- John Bercow -
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
-- John Doolittle -
After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.
-- Josephine Tey -
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
-- Joshua Lederberg -
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
-- Karen Thompson Walker -
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
-- Karl Barth -
We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
-- Karl Barth -
I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
-- Ken Livingstone -
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
-- Kenneth Rexroth -
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
-- Kid Rock -
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
-- Kim Alexis -
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr. -
In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.
-- Lotte Reiniger -
My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.
-- Luis A. Ferre -
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
-- Luis Bunuel -
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
-- Mark Twain -
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
-- Mark Twain -
However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
-- Matthew Arnold -
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
-- Michel Faber -
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
-- Naomi Campbell -
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.
-- Nellie Bly -
I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
-- Nevil Shute -
Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
-- Omar Bongo
