Newspaper Quotes
641 quotes by 515 authors
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney…
— Geraldine Brooks
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You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means…
— Carol Burnett
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I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
— Jenna Bush
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People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
— David Byrne
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In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not…
— Meg Cabot
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it…
— Herb Caen
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A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
— John Jay Chapman
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I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
— Nick Clegg
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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist,…
— Eric Alterman
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
— Richard Dawkins
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
— Mark Twain
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There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine,…
— Rupert Murdoch
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I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.
— James Packer
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an…
— Orison Swett Marden
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to…
— George Bernard Shaw
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