Quotes About News

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

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I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and a Goodyear blimp.

The prisoners had also turned to look at Mars. Those doing push-ups and pull-ups stopped. They wiped off their hands and moved back against the wall. And waited. Their expressions were clear. Thank God it's not me. The news had spread fast. Mars might be getting out after nearly being put to death.

Bad news always travels faster than good.

The spokeswoman said, "The victims, a mother and her young son, have been identified, but we're withholding their

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.

headers from the last few great daily papers

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion

rebuked his son Oskar for waking him at seven to tell him the news: "Why did you want to wake me up an hour earlier? It would still have been true at eight." And with this he went to sleep again till his usual calling-time.

All we can do is keep telling the stories, hoping that someone will ear. Hoping that in the noisy echoing nightmare of endlessly breaking news and celebrity gossip, other voices might be heard, speaking of the life of the mind and the soul's journey.

UFOs are back in the news, and it is high time we took a serious look at the phenomenon. (Actually the time is ten past eight, so not only are we a few minutes late but I'm hungry).

The next day I went for a scheduled visit with Susan Coates, Dylan's shrink, who I was conferring with to try and navigate the waters and do what was best for the kids. She broke the news to me that I was being accused of molestation and she had to report it. It was the law.

Igual que los burdeles, los periódicos duermen por las mañanas.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.

Breaking news is when you disseminate broken issues and fragmented ideas into one.