Newspaper Quotes

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.