Quotes
Quotes about News
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
(Celia:) Here come Monsieur Le Beau. (Rosalind:) With his mouth full of news. (Celia:) Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young. (Rosalind:) Then shall we be news-crammed.
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks itself, and what it does contain, In all things needful to be known is plain.
Carrier of news and knowledge, Instrument of trade and industry, Promoter of mutual acquaintance, Of peace and good-will Among men and nations.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven: And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?"--"Is it possible?"
Taxes are the sinews of the state.
War profiteer cartels and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime are called The United States by warwhore news teams. Everywhere including peace loving Schenectady the American people dislike such synecdoches.
Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
