Newspapers Quotes

Do not read the newspapers.

— Henry David Thoreau

I never worked on the school newspaper.

— Jeff Bezos

My newspaper job … is my identity.

— Roger Ebert

Misery sells newspapers.

— Phil Gramm

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

— James Ellis

Newspapers should have no friends.

— Joseph Pulitzer

The real news is bad news.

— Marshall McLuhan

I read the newspaper.

— George W. Bush

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

— Rupert Murdoch

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

— Horace Greeley

“Hear no evil. Speak no evil. See no evil. Read the newspapers.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“The newspapers said nobody made it out alive." "Surely you didn't trust them.”

— Max Barry

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

— Grant Shapps

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

— Thomas Carlyle

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

— Janine di Giovanni

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

— Douglas Alexander

“Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!”

— Colin Falconer

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching…

— Ben Hecht

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers…

— Anastas Mikoyan

Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with…

— Wolf Blitzer

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

— Andrew Mason

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece…

— Theodore Sturgeon

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 have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.”

— Clarence Darrow

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the…

— Tom Wolfe

“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed…

— Anonymous

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that…

— Max von Sydow

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and…

— Charlie Chaplin

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but…

— Evelyn Waugh

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can…

— Ridley Scott

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,…

— Andrea Dworkin

I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what…

— Assata Shakur

I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles…

— Stanley Donwood

The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing:…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he…

— Jesse Ventura

No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,…

— Noam Chomsky

The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is…

— Hassan Blasim

History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the…

— Howard Zinn