Boring Quote by Jimmy Breslin Download Open image “Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?” — Jimmy Breslin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boring How Lead Leadership Newspaper Newspapers Read Sentence Sentences So boring Starts You
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
A newspaper is ten times more interesting when somebody across the table is reading it? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“woman came to the checkout counter. She took a small order out of the shopping cart and placed it on the conveyor. There was… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“Pointing to the mutual envy of businessmen and politicians who are often out of their field in each other's area,, the author quotes the… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions. — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that… — John Cage Copy Share Image