In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service. They are the teachers whose names will… — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since news breaks on digg very quickly, we face the same issues as newspapers which print a retraction for a story that… — Kevin Rose Copy Share Image
If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Newspapers and magazines have been valuable to us precisely because they apply filters to information, otherwise known as editing, and often the… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it… — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I… — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Peter Hart, the pollster, has a question when he asks about presidential or vice presidential candidates, what kind of a neighbor would… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image