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Quotes About News

Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room.
~ Lemony Snicket
As I'm sure you know, it is rarely a good idea to get into an automobile with somebody you haven't met before, particularly if that person believes in such nonsense as 'No news is good news.' But it is never a good idea to stand around a flat and empty landscape while the police are closing in to arrest you for a crime you have not committed.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I'm sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that's the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the news again and again.
~ Lemony Snicket
Oh, no," he said. "We don't read the newspaper. It's too depressing. Our motto is 'No news is good news.
~ Lemony Snicket
Es mucho, mucho peor recibir las malas noticias por escrito que alguien te las diga, y estoy seguro de que comprendéis por qué. Cuando alguien simplemente te da malas noticias, las oyes una vez y ya está. Pero cuando las malas noticias están escritas, ya sea en una carta, un periódico o en tu brazo con rotulador, cada vez que las lees es como si recibieses las mismas noticias una y otra vez.
~ Lemony Snicket
Cuando alguien simplemente te da malas noticias, las oyes una vez y ya está. Pero cuando las malas noticias están escritas, ya sea en una carta, un periódico o en tu brazo con rotulador, cada vez que las lees es como si recibieses las mismas noticias una y otra vez.
~ Lemony Snicket
And some sad news ... the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.
~ leno jay
My dear Mr. Bennet, said his lady to him one day, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
~ Jane Austen
My dear Mr. Bennet, said his lady to him one day, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last? Mr. Bennet
~ Jane Austen
be a delightful scheme indeed, and completely do for us at once. Good Heaven! Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton! Now I have got some news for you, said Lydia, as they sat down at table. What do you think? It is excellent news—capital news—and about a certain person we all like! Jane and Elizabeth looked at each other
~ Jane Austen
today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers
~ Jane Green
I always feel a little guilty when I break bad news to someone, because that energy, of knowing something others don't, sort of puffs you up.
~ Jane Smiley
That could be a problem," Glo said, "since I seem to have made a combination of two spells. But here's the good news. I didn't have any powdered newt snot, so the spell is most likely temporary.
~ Janet Evanovich
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
~ Tamora Pierce
The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.
~ Tom Reiss
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
~ Eddie Huang
I was hired at CNBC TV by a financial news anchor named Louis Rukeyser who had spent decades as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. He told me I could learn the craft on the job. That was my first paid gig. Before that I was an unpaid intern at CNN in Atlanta.
~ Margaret Brennan
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.
~ Edward Snowden
Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.
~ Jason Kander
In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.
~ Brianna Wu
Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
~ Bret Stephens
When the Paris terror attacks happen, when war breaks out in Ukraine, when unrest happens in Ferguson, people know that CNN is the place to come.
~ Jeff Zucker
One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.
~ Jon Lovett
In the most polarized and passionate, the most angry and aggressive news environment in recent memory, my job as a journalist requires me - often - to push back in live interviews against comments that are unfair, untrue, or leave me thinking, 'Is this seriously happening right now?'
~ Brooke Baldwin