Newspapers Quotes · Page 7

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

— Thomas Jefferson

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

— Delia Parr

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

— Upton Sinclair

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

— Sally Quinn

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

— Norm Crosby

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

— Dan Jenkins

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

— Norman Mailer

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

— Anonymous

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper…

— Louisa May Alcott

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

— Zadie Smith

“She wasn’t going to succeed in newspapers if she didn’t ask the big questions when she could.”

— Larry McMurtry

“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into…

— Albert Einstein

I'm aware of politics in our country; I'm not totally disoriented about it. But my knowledge comes from newspapers.

— Kunal Kapoor

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

— Will Rogers

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars

— Meyer Lansky

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional…

— Susie Orbach

I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is…

— Marla Maples

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers…

— Rachel Parris

Peter Hart, the pollster, has a question when he asks about presidential or vice presidential candidates, what kind of a neighbor would…

— Mark Shields

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor…

— Tom Wolfe

One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal…

— Dave Barry

It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then…

— Mary Blakely

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in…

— Carl Hiaasen

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of…

— Harold Evans

I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see…

— Christina Baker Kline

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers…

— Otto Neurath

We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice.…

— Ann Hood

If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your…

— Ivan Stang

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

— Rupert Friend

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

— Umberto Eco

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

— Elias Canetti

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

— Wendell Phillips

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

— Warren Buffett

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

— Anonymous