Quotes About Newspapers

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.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

Those media reporters who know me well and my friends know what my real personality is. Those who read newspapers and watch TV don't know what my real personality is.

suit. Newspapers also published the first of John Dickinson's vastly influential Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, which warned, "A free people can never be too quick in observing, nor too firm in opposing the beginnings of alteration either in form or reality, respecting institutions formed for their security. . . . Servitude may be slipped upon us, under the sanction of usual and respectable terms

Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

As illiterate can refer to a cat who refuses to deliver a litter of kittens and instead delivers newspapers it has no capacity to read.

newspapers finally brought to its front page what up to then had been buried in the highly non-respectable literature of science fiction (to which, unfortunately, nobody yet has paid the attention it deserves as a vehicle of mass sentiments and mass desires).

In this kingdom where we now are," said he, "there lives a princess, who is so wonderfully clever that she has read all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them too, although she is so clever.

My father, while touring Ramanathapuram, came to know about my affiliation with the BJP when newspapers carried articles about the new faces of the party.

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

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

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.