Newspaper Quotes
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken -
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
Carl Hiaasen -
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Karl Rove -
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde -
It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
Tabitha Soren -
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
E. L. Doctorow
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
Harrison Salisbury -
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
Yahya Jammeh -
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
Jack Germond -
Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
H. G. Bissinger -
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
P. T. Barnum
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen -
With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
Bette Davis -
For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
Gary Frank -
We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
Sally Quinn -
I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
Harold Stephen Black -
When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.
Harold Evans -
I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
Ira Glass