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Quotes About Headline

I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
~ Walter Cronkite
In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.
~ John Van Hamersveld
I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.
~ Tim Harford
For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
~ Walter Cronkite
I have never seen a newspaper headline where those in spirit, without physical bodies, carried out evil deeds like a mugger in a parking lot.
~ Stephen Richards
The play was made quite famous by a headline misprint in Variety reading OBSCENE PLAY ATTRACTS MASSIVE CROW.
~ Steve Aylett
When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Then one morning, while shredding newspapers for the rodent cages, he spotted a headline that would change his destiny: CONGRESS MULLS $8 BILLION PLAN FOR EVERGLADES RESTORATION.
~ Carl Hiaasen
We have thought carefully about how our use of typography, colour, and images can support and enhance 'Guardian' journalism. We have introduced a font called Guardian Headline that is simple, confident, and impactful.
~ Katharine Viner
I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'
~ Charles Kennedy
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
~ Gary Larson
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
~ George Stevens
A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'
~ Steve Williams
Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
~ Paige VanZant
I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.
~ Michael Owen
Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.
~ Jennifer Lee
That would be a really ugly headline: 'American Actor Dies the Dumbest Way Possible.'
~ Brendan Hunt
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
~ Matt Mullenweg
On 'The Daily Show,' we get so caught up in the day-to-day news cycle. A story breaks, and then the piranhas in late night, we all jump to the headline, and we dissect it, and then we have to move on to the next day.
~ Hasan Minhaj
As a UC Berkeley alumni magazine headline neatly phrased it, 'Philosophy's Popularity Soars: Devotees Find It's More Than "An Interesting Path to Poverty"'.
~ Christopher Hitchens
It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.
~ Kurt Loder
If it's called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? BAM. Busted!
~ Stephen Colbert, 2009
STUDENTS GET FIRST HAND JOB EXPERIENCE' is a newspaper headline that I have seen with my own eyes. I think you'll agree: it needed a hyphen, either between 'first' and 'hand' or between 'hand' and 'job', depending.
~ Gyles Brandreth
Vanity Fair article headlined THE TROUBLE WITH ANDREW.
~ James Patterson