Chance Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

— Pico Iyer

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to…

— Haruki Murakami

News informs us of the happenings; they reflect where the humankind stands at the moment in various respects of life. They provide mental pabulum…

— K S Venkataraman

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

— Arthur Machen

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into,…

— Jon Stewart

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“In spite of wars and tourism and pictures by satellite, the world is just the same size it ever was. It is awesome to…

— Ted Simon

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher,…

— Margaret Atwood

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and…

— Susan Sontag

“I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however, was a…

— W.G. Sebald