Quotes About Newspaper

I was in a booth, at a window, reading somebody's abandoned newspaper about the campaign for a president I didn't vote for last time and wasn't going to vote for this time.

called the guy at the LA Times.

Wild-eyed gun nuts who insist that guns don't kill people are purely full of crap, as even a cursory glance at a newspaper on almost any given day will attest.

On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

Toward the end of 1837, a murder shook the nation. On November 7, a mob in Alton, Illinois, killed Elijah P. Lovejoy, owner of the Alton Observer, an abolitionist newspaper.

There had been a long article about the resurgence of stoicism in a newspaper he had picked up in the coffee bar—some of it, he recalled, underlined in red ink by an unknown reader. That happened to many of the newspapers and magazines there—somebody was furtively, and selectively, underlining certain things in red.

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

Beano, buying the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Calgary

Engaged in a new form of serfdom---only bound now to banks and mortgage lenders instead of to lords---her more highly leveraged neighbors pore over the business section of the newspaper each day looking for some sign that the government will soon step in to "freeze" their mortgage rates where they are before a scheduled adjustment hits.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them.

Welles later insisted that his point, all along, had been to raise Americans' awareness about the perils of radio in an age of propaganda. "People suspect what they read in the newspaper," he said, but "when radio came . . . anything that came through that new machine was believed.

One Republican said, "I felt that Bryan was the first politician I had ever heard speak the truth and nothing but the truth," even though in every case, when he read a transcript of the speech in the newspaper the next day, he "disagreed with almost all of it.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

A ceia indo principiando, somente falei também de sérios assuntos, que eram a política e os negócios da lavoura e cria. Só faltava lá uma boa cerveja e alguém com jornal na mão, para alto se ler e a respeito disso tudo se falar.

De Leidsche Courant biedt de helpende hand." (Pg13) "De golven rollen zo dat ze over de kop slaan" (pg 19) "Die blijven altijd kind, ze kunnen niet volwassen worden." (Pg 42)

They had to get him out of here, whatever the cost to the newspaper. She checked her phone again – it was only five thirty back in Glasgow. But she had to make the call now before her battery died.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.