“I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.” YearsKindTeachFourCollegePhotographyTrainingNewspapersLocalsFour YearsBasic Training Author:James Nachtwey
“As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?” YearsBookMotherFourCallingNewspapersAustraliaClimbingFour YearsFenceJumpingJohnsonFlewAeroplanes1930sAmyJumping Off Author:Nancy Bird Walton
“A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” NationsEducationFourAdviceThousandNewspapersJournalistHostileGiverTutorBayonets Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!” KnowsShouldBookThreeAttentionKnowledgeFourOur LivesTearsBandEssentialsPaperNewsBlameNewspapersPensInsignificantPascalInsignificant Things Author:Marcel Proust
“An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.” TwoWarYoungMorningFourPlayerWorstCostRelationPressesValuableFinishedNewspapersLocalsEveningInnocenceEngagedArroganceVotingAwardsPerpetualBostonMillsCirculationPoisonous Author:George Will
“When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.” FilmHateThreeFourLove YouCriticsNewspapersFranceHate YouDogmatic Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.” YearsTwoThreeFourTelevisionYears AgoSevenNewspapersStationsDozenGlobesBoston Author:Will McDonough
“Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.” WayHas BeensHomeWishFourSpeechPreparedNewspapersVersionsSpeakersWay Home Author:Dale Carnegie
“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.” MenWayCareLastsUniverseReadingActorsHoursEmotionMorningFireFourBattleCostThousandTreatsExcitingMurderTwentiesSuicideDivorceStrikesNewspapersThanksSensualFiftyMisfortunesTransformedStatesmenBankruptcyPoisoningCafesBlending In Author:Marcel Proust