Newspapers Quotes · Page 9

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

— Claud Cockburn

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

— Thomas Carlyle

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

— Annalena McAfee

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

— Al Gore

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

— Jerry Coleman

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

— Thomas Jefferson

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

— Mason Cooley

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned…

— George Bernard Shaw

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first…

— James Purdy

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

— Will Rogers

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of…

— Charles Osgood

As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels…

— Javad Alizadeh

“Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love.”

— Susan Rich

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter…

— Eddie Murphy

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

— I. F. Stone

It's important to remember that the future of quality journalism is not dependent on the future of newspapers. The discussion needs to…

— Arianna Huffington

Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd -…

— Bill Kurtis

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't…

— Steve Case

The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world.…

— Evgeny Morozov

You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is…

— Bernhard Goetz

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy,…

— Henry Miller

Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow…

— Louis Armstrong

The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would…

— Fanny Kemble

There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay…

— Thomas Paine

The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him…

— Richard M. Weaver

I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even…

— Harvey Weinstein

I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under…

— Tom Robbins

“What I fault newspapers for is that day after day they draw our attention to insignificant things whereas only three or four…

— Marcel Proust

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories…

— Haruki Murakami

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

— Chris Priestley

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

— Henry David Thoreau

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

— Jill Abramson

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

— Nadine Gordimer

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.

— Clay Shirky

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I'm sure it's all journalism [...] It means it's true enough for now.”

— Terry Pratchett