Headline Quotes

We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

I don't want that to be the headline.

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.