Newspapers Quotes · Page 8

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

— Spiro T. Agnew

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

— Alexander Lebedev

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

— Thomas Jefferson

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

— A. J. Liebling

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.

— Tom Stoppard

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

— Douglas Alexander

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

— Mary Ritter Beard

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

— John I. Jenkins

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

— Edward Abbey

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

— Aaron Levie

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from…

— Jeff VanderMeer

All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

— Jennifer Rardin

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

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

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the…

— Joshua Foer

You have to design a story that might appear on the front page of the newspaper for the website. You don't have…

— Khoi Vinh

I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by…

— Terry Pratchett

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in…

— Helen Fielding

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of…

— James D. Watson

Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough,…

— Julian Assange

In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can…

— Andy Grundberg

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

Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father…

— Henrik Ibsen

Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were…

— Michael Kosser

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure…

— John Stuart Mill

Ebooks represent a shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance. In the past, publishing required a great deal…

— David Gerrold

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers.…

— Franz von Papen

However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country…

— Fatima Bhutto

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

— Janine di Giovanni

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

— Mark Twain

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

— Dorothee Solle

“The newspapers said nobody made it out alive." "Surely you didn't trust them.”

— Max Barry

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

— Horace Greeley

“Hear no evil. Speak no evil. See no evil. Read the newspapers.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

— Rupert Murdoch

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

— Thomas Carlyle