Quotes About News

He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good. Most welcome was his prediction that language would gradually return.

He had the heartening bulk of the aging athlete defeated by pastry. He delivered all news as though it were good.

It went to show that anyone could deliver good news, including a person like Martin Andreeson, even if he wasn't doing so purposefully, and even if he was the king of pukes in most respects.

Scarce was the verdict spoken, When that still calm was broken, A childish form hath burst into the throng; With tears and looks of sadness, That bring no news of gladness, But tell too surely something hath gone wrong!

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Some people cannot bear news like that. They think they must live forever, and they cry and wail when they realise that their time is coming. I do not feel that, and I did not weep at that news which the doctor gave me. The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die.

Mr, Truman was jubilant. President Truman. True man; what a strange name, come to think of it. We refer to Jesus Christ as true God and true Man. Truman is a true man of his time in that he was jubilant. He was not a son of God, brother of Christ, brother of the Japanese, jubilating as he did. He went from table to table on the cruiser which was bringing him home from the Big Three conference, telling the great news; "jubilant" the newspapers said. Jubilate Deo. We have killed 318,000 Japanese.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.

another problem is that many of us are addicted to news itself. And this is a drug that can eat away at rationality and happiness both. No matter how much the news alarms someone with this addiction, or depresses them, or makes them absolutely miserable with the unfairness of the world, or puts them in a state of perpetual rage, they can't help but seek out even more news. And this news stokes even more outrage, and exposes them to even more dire warnings of coming catastrophes.

So the old saying now becomes, 'the man with a thousand media outlets, each providing its own, differing spin on the news, never knows what's true.

You're wired by evolution to find bad news more motivational than good. To seek it out.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

By 2018 the BBC seemed to have decided that items of specifically gay news needed to be not just reported but headlined as major news.

The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

Do you want to live a better life? Do you really want to have a normal, optimistic outlook on life every day? Don't watch CNN. Don't read the New York Times.

Life would be boring without gossip.