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“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.”

Knows Years Long Stories Might School Reader Periods News Newspapers March Coast Breeding Kurds Great Schools

Author:A. J. Liebling

“Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.”

Writing Reflection Newspapers Awe Mature Circumspection

Author:A. J. Liebling

“A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"”

Men World Asks Newspapers

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.”

Knows Littles Has Beens Facts Belief Interest Rounds Core Newspapers Delicate Layers Blank Pearls Lively Grit Ornaments Embryos

Book:Scoop: a novel

Source: Scoop: a novel

“Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.”

Ifs Bigs Feet Produce Newspapers Magazines Boards Fifteen Destined Pins Headlines Posters Layout Appraise Pin Up Bulletin Board

Author:David Ogilvy

“The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.”

Book Facts Bigs America Hundred Newspapers

Author:Bennett Cerf

“I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.”

Opportunity Ambition Newspapers Reporters Broadcasters Newspaper Reporters

Author:Charles Kuralt

“Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature.”

Men Writing Long Matter Would Be Letters Newspapers Ashamed Signatures

Book:Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.”

Ifs Want Trying Causes Figures Right Now Newspapers Reporters Backsides Newspaper Reporters

Author:Joe Paterno

“Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.”

Given Newspapers Motive Repeats Reporters

Author:Ben Bradlee

“I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.”

Trying Seems Fall Answers Worry Figures Newspapers Not Sure Circulation Fads

Author:Ben Bradlee

“I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.”

Play Shows Guy Football Tvs Newspapers Awards Tv Shows Trophies

Author:Randy Moss

“In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.”

People Country School Common Degrees Newspapers

Book:A collection of Essays and fugitive writings on moral, historical, polictical and literary subjects

Source: A collection of Essays and fugitive writings on moral, historical, polictical and literary subjects

“My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper was considered a community service. Now they're being run as profit centers, and they're trying to get pretty high profit margins. As a result, investigative reporting has been seen as a problem.”

People Trying Has Beens Problem Running Used Understanding Community Results Talking Profit Newspapers Used To Be Margins Community Service Profit Margin

Author:Craig Newmark

“It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.”

“Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.”

Book Television Internet Radio Newspapers Magazines Giants

Author:Bernie Sanders

“America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.”

Ideas Country America Reading Community Cities Bottom Newspapers Locals Trends Colleagues Great Country Local Community

Author:John Naisbitt

“In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.”

People Bigs Today Used Courses Industry Newspapers Factors Used To Be Print

Author:Dave Barry

“Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'”

Knows World States United Opinion United States Streets Wall Integrity Newspapers Journal Muslim World Wall Street Journal

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store. After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.”

People Mind Known Forever Successful Convinced Stores Newspapers Magazines Brands Comment Display Retail

Author:Al Ries

“I don't have family members calling me and saying, "Is this rumor about you in the newspaper true?," because they know it's all bullshit. I already have that support system, and it's actually been really helpful. My parents have been in the entertainment business for so long that they really know what not to do.”

Knows Long Has Beens Parent Support Calling Members Entertainment Newspapers Helpful Bullshit Rumor Family Members Support Systems Entertainment Business

Author:Eve Hewson

“New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.”

Book New York Broken Judgment Newspapers Collections Establishment Hacks Broken Down

Author:James Purdy

“The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.”

World Artist Worst New York Newspapers Vicious New York Times

Author:James Purdy

“There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.”

World Firsts Believe Turns Happenings Newspapers Turn-on

Author:James Purdy

“I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.”

People Writing Looks Gone Fronts Approach Messages Pages Bases Newspapers Anarchy Wikileaks

Author:Martin Sorrell

“If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.”

Ifs Long Real Enough Character Stories Breaths Sells Smell Newspapers Being Real

Author:Ford Madox Ford

“If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.”

“I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.”

Wells Book Use Honest Reader Coffee Newspapers Cups Being Honest Digital Coffee Cup Kindles Sony

Author:Chad Hurley

“Ever noticed that no matter what happens in one day, it exactly fits in the newspaper?”

Matter Happens Fit One Day No Matter What Newspapers

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.”

Ifs Trying War Acting College Decided Newspapers Sufficient Covering Volleyball Retrospect Acting As If

Author:Samantha Power

“Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.”

Stories Newspapers Injured

Author:Norman Mailer

“In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

Ifs Knows Stories Turns Forget Cases Pages Errors Affair International Newspapers Accurate Multiple Palestine Amusement Exasperation International Affairs Baloney

Author:Michael Crichton

“The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.”

Said Evidence Newspapers Statements Conclusion One Time Examining

Book:An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

Source: An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

“Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis”

British Newspapers Columns Acropolis

Author:Ian Jack

“A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.”

Stills Pieces Nice Sitting Cat Newspapers Meat Chairs Plates Persian Sticky Distasteful

Book:The soul of a cat: and other stories

Source: The soul of a cat: and other stories

“We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.”

People Knows Rich Paper Newspapers Feds Appetite Papers Rich People

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.”

Firsts Done Brother Newspapers Flight Reporters Rookies Wright Brothers

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.”

Ifs Sometimes Would Be Eye Form Modern Scripture Newspapers Witness Narrative Reports Poetic Imaginative Violation Evangelical Canon Scholastics

Book:Fundamentalism

Source: Fundamentalism

“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.”

“It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.”

Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

“You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.”

Men Has Beens Reason Seeing Gender Newspapers Related

Author:Gloria Steinem

“In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.”

Bigs Cities New York Corners Newspapers Headlines Holland

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.”

Way Writing States Political Figures Affair Newspapers Spoiled Closeness Veracity Political History

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.”

Ifs Giving Trying Painting Tired Boring Newspapers So Boring

Book:Andy Warhol

Source: Andy Warhol

“During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.”

Cities Violence Childhood Media Mass Newspapers Advertising Unpredictable 1960s Circulation Shanghai Portents

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.”

Mean Long Use Doors Fashion Tvs Program Presses Meetings Radio Newspapers Propaganda Articles Posters Propagandist Sporadic Canvassing

Author:Jacques Ellul

“My dad isn't sure how I make a living because I'm not in the newspapers or on music shows any more. The world is bigger than England, however, but for the large part, yes, people don't know who I am. What are you gonna do? Unless you're a superstar act that attracts young people because it might be their last chance to see you before you die, then it's fairly typical. I'm astonished that I have any audience at all, to be honest.”

People Knows World Shows Might Lasts Young Dies Chance Audience Honest Dad Bigger England My Dad Newspapers Who I Am Being Honest Typical Superstar Last Chance

Author:Graham Parker

“I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.”

Stills Hands Kids Grew Grew Up Newspapers Ink Delivering

Author:Tom Verducci

“I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.”

Writing Years Littles Remember Sports Waiting Morning Sun Growing Up Growing Dad Pages Spring Baseball My Dad Newspapers Crafts Posts Articles Afternoon Backyards Colorado Denver Playing Baseball

Author:Pat Forde

“You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.”

Needs Looks Sports Newspapers Sections

Author:Mike Tirico

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