News Quotes

• My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.

  

  John Travolta
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Happy

• She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Working
  • News
  • Alphabet

• Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Military
  • Cameras
  • Radical

• Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Reporters

• The main point seems to be that I'm arrogant and narcissistic, which should be news to exactly four people.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • People
  • News
  • Narcissistic

• The public never is independently responsive to news.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Public
  • News
  • Responsive

• There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Character
  • Needs
  • Names

• Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Speech
  • Globe
  • Musical Instruments

• I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

  

  Michael Koryta
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Influence

• Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Helping

• I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Want
  • Hate
  • Speculation

• Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Exerted
  • Lady Middleton
  • Mr. Palmer

• In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

  

  Alice Stewart
  • News
  • Killed
  • Messenger

• News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • People
  • Want
  • Print

• It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.

  

  Adolph Ochs
  • Opinion
  • News
  • Impartially

• For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Popcorn
  • Aphrodisiac
  • Newman

• News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Chicago
  • Statement
  • Conference

• Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.

  

  Charles McPhee
  • Dream
  • Persons
  • Media

• I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sun
  • News
  • Ribbon

• The good news is that it's not something too serious and with some rest and a break from the game, he should be right to start the Super 14 season.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Game
  • Rest

• Things come and go in the news cycle like waves of fever.

  

  Adam Curtis
  • News
  • Cycle

• That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Character
  • Way
  • Trump

• I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • News
  • Restaurants
  • Foxes

• The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • War
  • Death
  • Choices

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