It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to… — Guy Cook Copy Share Image
“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just… — Gabriel Campisi Copy Share Image
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers. — Robert Draper Copy Share Image
Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France.… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do… — Gerhard Zeiler Copy Share Image
As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on.… — Scott Heim Copy Share Image
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers. — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
