Quotes with newspaper

  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
  • The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
  • Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
  • A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
  • There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bill Walsh A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Baer A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bill Watterson Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
    Weirdos from Another Planet
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Alexander Graham Bell America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Ben Katchor As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Bob Considine 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.
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  • Bob Woodward Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • George Orwell Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Gore Vidal Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bruce Robinson I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Bob Woodward If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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