Quotes with newspaper

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  • Arthur Brisbane If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • Mark Twain If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Umberto Eco It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
    (2015)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Jerry Seinfeld It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
    Jerry Seinfeld
    American comedian and actor (1954 - )
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  • Billy Sunday Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Arthur Christiansen News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspaper: A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • R. H. Hutton Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
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  • Carl Hiaasen 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
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Norman Mailer Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Alain de Botton Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Karl Kraus 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.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Bryson So without an original or helpful thought in my head, I just sat for some minutes and watched these poor disconnected people shuffle past. Then I did what most white Australians do. I read my newspaper and drank my coffee and didn't see them anymore.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher 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.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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