N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“News came of Beni Beni, the madman of Wimbe, who'd always made us laugh in better times. He'd run up to merchants in the trading center with his raving eyes and snatch cakes and Fantas from their stalls. No one ever took them away because his hands were always so filthy. The mad people had always depended on others to care for them, but now there were none. Beni Beni died at the church.”
Source: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.”
“News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)”
“News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.”
“News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact.
The unique potential - and duty - of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.”
“News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.”
Source: The Catastrophic History of You and Me
“News flash: The whole thing is a huge mess and a giant nightmare and it’s all about to explode in your face and you have no idea what
you’ve gotten yourself into. Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their
possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help.
That’s right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear.
Believe me, I should know.”
Source: The Catastrophic History of You and Me
“News flash, Fern Taylor!" Ambrose barked, slamming his hand against the dashboard, making Fern jump. "Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don't need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!""You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love," Fern snapped. "I didn't just l-love you because you were beautiful!" She'd said the L word, right out loud, though she'd tripped over it.”
“News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn’t interfere with the flamethrower. “No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.”
“News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.”
“News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.”
“News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both the event and the responses at the same time - how is President Barack Obama or Congress responding to the events? I think this reflects a deep need we have to feel that things are under control and that events are subject to our influence.”
“News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.”
“News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.”
“News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.”
“News is also an acronym for what people need to know, what they should know and what they want to know. If it's in one of those categories then I will do the story.”
“News is anyway a construct, as different from truth. And then further news on the same subject uses the construct as the truth and soon the news anyway is far removed from the truth. As this is happening, the constructs based on lies are moving towards the truth. So the incremental change in lies, is towards truth, and the delta change in truth, is towards lies. So if someone is looking at the current direction of truth and lie constructs they seems to reflect the opposite.
Narratives get fed to us, riding on jokes and tidbits constructed at opposite ends and so on till the truths become lies, and lies, the truth.
- Vineet
REALITY IS ABOUT TRUTH ADDED TO LIES
हक़ीक़त सच और झूठ का समावेश है”
“News is full of noise. History is largely stripped of it.”
Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“News is history shot on the wing.”
“News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.”
“News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.”
“News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.”
“News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.”
Source: A Casual Commentary
“News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.”
“News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.”
“News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“News is only the first rough draft of history.”
“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.”
“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
“News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.”
“News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.”
“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.”
“News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.”
“News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.”
“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
“News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.”
“News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.”
“News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.”
“News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.”
“News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.”
“News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.”
“News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.”
Source: The Mislaid Magician: Or, Ten Years After
“News of the fee to be charged by Tony Blair Associates for the duration of the contract, which was supposed to last several years, became a global sensation: $43 million. Both the consultancy and its client denied this figure to be accurate.”
Source: The Capital of the Superficial
“News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run.”
“News photography teaches you to think fast.”
“News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.”
“News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.”
Source: Anchorwoman