Newspapers Quotes · Page 4

Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

— Alexander Lebedev

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

— James G. Watt

“I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!”

— L.M. Montgomery

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

— Shaun Wright-Phillips

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin in serial form in newspapers, beginning in June of 1851.”

— Lance T. Stewart

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

— Arthur Christiansen

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

— Jim Lehrer

I don't read the art mags. I read the newspapers.

— Cornelia Parker

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

— Karl Kraus

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

— Clifton Fadiman

Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

— Robert G. Picard

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

— Lars Ulrich

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

— James F. Cooper

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Most newspapers are content to shovel yesterday’s print stories into tomorrow’s website and then port the same material into yards of gray…

— Anonymous

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to…

— John Vaillant

“The great danger in the South comes precisely from the fact that the public is not informed. Newspapers shirk notoriously their editorial…

— John Howard Griffin

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would…

— Harold Evans

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should…

— Thomas Jefferson

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics…

— Kenneth Koch

I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school…

— Halle Berry

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will…

— Garrison Keillor

We know that ATT is upgrading their TCI network to provide voice services, but we believe that upgrade will go beyond that,…

— Robert Rosenberg

Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But…

— Bob Saget

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a…

— Muhammad Ali

The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you…

— Erik Naggum

“A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I…

— Muhammad Ali

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and…

— Henrik Ibsen

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

— Elizabeth Drew

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

— O. Henry

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

— Claud Cockburn

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

— Richard Cobden

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

— Betty Friedan

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

— Henry David Thoreau

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

— Karen Thompson Walker

If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

— Yahya Jammeh