Magazine Quotes

• If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Stop
  • City

• I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Fun
  • Playing
  • Guitar

• I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.

  

  Donna J. Nelson
  • Important
  • American
  • Engineering

• My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • School
  • Library
  • Mathematics

• The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today, we wanted to avoid being harassed by the police so we were trying to think of names that we could use. It was done very casually.

  

  Bei Dao
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Police

• Working at 'Harper's' was an awakening experience for me. I genuinely enjoyed the process of putting together a fashion magazine.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Experience
  • Fashion
  • Enjoyed

• When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.

  

  David Sharp
  • Hollywood
  • Director
  • Worked

• Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

  

  Mike White
  • Thinking
  • Awards
  • Huge

• I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.

  

  Michael Wolf
  • Magazine
  • Produced

• We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.

  

  Barney Rosset
  • Politics
  • Issues
  • Operated

• I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

  

  Rick Bragg
  • Between
  • Newspaper
  • Magazine

• You can get inspired from a magazine, yes, but you can also be inspired from a website, from a street-style blogger, from what people post on Instagram.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Inspired
  • Website
  • Blogger

• Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Sense
  • Print
  • Tactile

• I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Believing

• When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

  

  Simone Signoret
  • Young
  • Magazine
  • Appeared

• I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine.

  

  Suzy Amis
  • Model
  • Magazine
  • Shorter

• But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Lose
  • Radio
  • Weight

• Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.

  

  William Bastone
  • Magazine
  • Editors
  • Sells

• Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • People
  • Animation
  • Communicating

• I want to put people in the magazine who have their own social and digital footprints and will promote their story. I mean, when you look at this issue and you see Marc Jacobs and Amanda Brooks and Giovanna Battaglia, these are people with large social followings, and I know that when I work with them it’s going to get shared in a bigger way.

  

  Amy Astley
  • People
  • Story
  • Magazine

• Somehow you've been voted something for a magazine, and it's a complete mystery to me. I wake up and I have to look at that head when I brush my teeth every morning, you know. And it's weird. And it's unpleasant at times.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Weird
  • Teeth
  • Voted

• You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business - along with the short memory of our readers.

  

  Steve Forbes
  • Money
  • Advice
  • Magazine

• In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Fight
  • Winner
  • Magazine

• William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • God
  • Respected
  • Editor

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