Quotes About News

Paul Revere's ride is perhaps the most famous historical example of a word-of-mouth epidemic. A piece of extraordinary news traveled a long distance in a very short time, mobilizing an entire region to arms. Not all word-of-mouth epidemics are this sensational, of course. But it is safe to say that word of mouth is-even in this age of mass communications and multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns-still the most important form of human communication

Toate veÅŸtile noi sunt veÅŸti vechi care se întâmpl? unor oameni noi.

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

Há boas e más novas no café. A má, é que o tempo corre. A boa, é que o tempo cura.

I am waiting for news from Ezra Pound and from Kay Boyle, to whom I sent carbons. They may make valuable suggestions.)

Anderson Cooper

Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies.

I do not want to believe everything I read in the press. The papers, particularly the online editions, publish a lot of false news.

News you can't read calmly, don't read at all!

Did I ever tell you I was on TV once? Yup. I was in fifth grade, and a local news team came to cover a hurricane that blew a tree into our school. I was the girl crossing her eyes behind the newscaster, just to the left. (I saved the tape. I play

Did I ever tell you I was on TV once? Yup. I was in fifth grade, and a local news team came to cover a hurricane that blew a tree into our school. I was the girl crossing her eyes behind the newscaster, just to the left. (I saved the tape. I play it, oh, twice a month. I think it shows real talent.)

There's more good news," Kristy said. "I hate to say this, but I'm afraid we're going to have to cancel the winter carnival.

I still can't believe it was news that I get my hair cut at the barbershop. Where else would I get it cut? Why do I drive a pickup truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce? Nowadays

Well! What news? What news? — Good, I hope, said the knight, with spread hands — Ah my poor boy! Thus alamort! Surely, madam — There he stopt, and looked wistfully at me; then at my cousins — Mr. Reeves, Mrs. Reeves, speak a good word for my boy.

Doral asked if Coburn's neighbors had been interviewed. "By me personally," Fred replied. "Everybody in the apartment complex knew him by sight. Women thought he was attractive in that certain kind of way." "What certain kind of way?" "Wished they could fuck him, but considered him bad news." "That's a 'way'?" "Of course that's a 'way.'

But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable news. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

Ben-David knows a lot about the lives of Jews from the Arab countries. He often makes the point that they, too, are refugees who fled from persecution and whose property was confiscated. World opinion concentrates on the Palestinian refugees while these Oriental Jews—nearly a million of them—are given no consideration. It is inevitable that he and I should turn to politics. Sightseeing is all very well, but our heads are full of news, omens, and speculations.

I don't read the news to find truth, as that would be a foolish waste of time.

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking.

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking. From that point through today, the business model of the press changed from presenting information to manipulating brains.

I don't read the news to find truth, as that would be a foolish waste of time. I read the news to broaden my exposure to new topics and patterns that make my brain more efficient in general and to enjoy myself, because learning interesting things increases my energy and makes me feel optimistic. Don't think of the news as information. Think of it as a source of energy.

To my friends and colleagues, too—and anyone else I can corner for long enough to deliver a monologue—this idea, that the Mass is "heaven on earth," arrives as news, very good news.

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.