Newspaper Quotes - page 2

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea. (Fredrik Bajer)
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism. View quote
Will McDonough
One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. View quote
Daniel Handler
You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on. View quote
Harry S. Truman
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions. View quote
William O. Douglas
A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. (Norman Mailer)
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free. View quote
William Cobbett
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. View quote
Eddie Vedder
When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza... I hate Liebestraum. View quote
Victor Borge
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject. View quote
Indro Montanelli
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. View quote
Richard Cobden
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one. View quote
Roy Hattersley
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. (Henry Fielding)
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone-all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it. View quote
Albert Camus
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms! View quote
Bill Watterson
A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands. View quote
Claud Cockburn