Newspapers Quotes · Page 11

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

— Jerry Coleman

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Jill Abramson

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I read little, I just glance through one newspaper. Just 15 minutes.

— Pope Francis

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

— Nadine Gordimer

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it…

— Anonymous

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

— Philip K. Dick

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was…

— H. G. Wells

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

— Calvin Klein

When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days.

— Dave Barry

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly…

— Felix Dennis

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United…

— Thurgood Marshall

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio…

— Connie Chung

While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and…

— Rupert Murdoch

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was…

— Colum McCann

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes…

— Clay Shirky

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence…

— Benicio Del Toro

I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on…

— Trina Robbins

A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers'…

— Umberto Eco

I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads…

— Harvey Milk

Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't…

— J.R. Ward

There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders…

— Libba Bray

The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now,…

— Bill Watterson

I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble,…

— Biz Stone

I went through that stage every teenager goes through: Who am I? What am I? Where do I fit in? In my…

— LeAnn Rimes

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Clay Shirky

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

— Tom Verducci

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

— Joel Grey

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.”

— Enock Maregesi

I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

— Molly Ivins