Newspapers Quotes

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

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

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

I read the newspaper.

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

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.