Newspapers Quotes · Page 14

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be…

— Harry S. Truman

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

— Dave Barry

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you…

— Warren Buffett

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

The newspapers are always reminding the public that I am an unpopular prime minister.

— Ehud Olmert

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

— Ronald Reagan

And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police…

— Terence McKenna

I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they…

— Billy Graham

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the…

— Michael Palin

I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at…

— Brian Regan

The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or…

— Karl Kraus

No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,…

— William O. Douglas

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every…

— Pat Oliphant

A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its…

— Karl Barth

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows…

— A. J. Liebling

Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe…

— Daniel Levitin

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue…

— Maria Edgeworth

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that…

— Winston Churchill

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come…

— Noam Chomsky

Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small…

— Howard Zinn

“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man…

— Christopher Hitchens

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

— Halle Berry

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

— Roy Hattersley

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

— Joely Richardson

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

— Samuel Johnson

“Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.”

— Paul Tobin

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in…

— Russell Baker

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

— H. L. Mencken

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in

— Sumner Redstone

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

— Rishi Kapoor

Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

— Enid Bagnold

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

— Felicity Jones

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

— Josephine Tey

Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

— Dinesh D'Souza

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

— Jenna Bush