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Quotes About Newspaper

Growing up, I was so sick of politics - it was in the house all the time - I was proud of not reading the newspaper.
~ Shabana Azmi
While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for its advertisements.
~ Sucheta Dalal
I had been a zealous writer of journals my whole life, and beginning my newspaper column gave me a huge sense of purpose while enabling me to understand my own emotions by reading them in black and white.
~ Shweta Bachchan Nanda
The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.
~ Sumner Redstone
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The newspaper warns us about terrorist anthrax bombs and virulent new strains of meningitis, and the only comfort newspapers can offer is a coupon for twenty cents off on underarm deodorant.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
the newspaper is the Christian's report card. By reading the local news we can tell what kind of job we are doing as intercessors. I often encourage people to "pray the news.
~ Cindy Jacobs
Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him Granny Lee or The King Of Spades, because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.
~ Clint Johnson
But the Daily Mail isn't to be trusted, Jacob said to himself, looking about for something else to read.
~ Virginia Woolf
But cricket was no mere game. Cricket was important. [S]he could never help reading about cricket. [S]he read the scores in the stop press first, then how it was a hot day; then about a murder case.
~ Virginia Woolf
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He began with the day's copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
~ Laura Gilpin
The Two-headed Calf Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
~ Laura Gilpin
the little horse had drawn more newspaper coverage in 1938 than Roosevelt, who was second, Hitler (third), Mussolini (fourth), or any other newsmaker. His match with War Admiral was almost certainly the single biggest news story of the year and one of the biggest sports moments of the century.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
~ Charles Baudelaire
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
~ Charles Dickens
For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.
~ Charles Dickens
I'm uncommon fond of reading, too." "Are you, Joe?" "On-common. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!" I derived from this, that Joe's education, like Steam, was yet in its infancy.
~ Charles Dickens
Biddy entered on our special agreement, by imparting some information from her little catalogue of Prices, under the head of moist sugar, and lending me, to copy at home, a large old English D which she had imitated from the heading of some newspaper, and which I supposed, until she told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle. Of
~ Charles Dickens
Such histories as these do, in reality, very much resemble a newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not...
~ Henry Fielding, 1749
EDITOR... A person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1914
Give an American a newspaper and a pie and he will make himself comfortable anywhere.
~ Ambrose Bierce
After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
~ Grazia Deledda