newspaper quotes

• I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. (Thomas Jefferson) [take/newspaper]
• The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper. (Thomas Jefferson) [newspaper]
• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating. (Helen Keller) [people/newspaper/people/understanding]
• 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) [civilization & progress/paper/newspaper/life]
• Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. (Norman Mailer) [newspaper/facts]
• A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. (Arthur Miller) [newspaper/nation]
• Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment? (Henry Miller) [newspaper/men/society/activity]
• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [newspaper/willpower/politics]
• Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. (George Orwell) [life/newspaper]
• Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. (Gore Vidal) [people/newspaper/president]
• What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying (Virginia Woolf) [newspaper/sun/group]
• I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper. (Shirley Manson) [newspaper]
• I don't own a newspaper, I don't own a radio station. That's it. I don't feel bad about that. I understand the limitations. I fight against them, I stretch 'em out. I'm not out to save the world. (Al Lewis) [newspaper/radio/bad/fight]
• There's a long history of underground outlaw papers - the Berkeley Barb, the RAT here, which was very popular in the Sixties. They lost their audience. Ten years is a long time for an outlaw newspaper. (Al Lewis) [time/newspaper]
• I was on the bus with Pop, going to lay brick. There was a newspaper lying on the seat, advertising for singers. I loved to sing as a child. (Dominic Chianese) [tram/newspaper/advertising/singers]
• We were totally free to hang out anywhere and no one noticed us. We were not even worth a dot of ink on a page in the local newspaper. It was great to just go out and have a beer with no major hoopla. (Matt Damon) [newspaper/beer]
• “With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.” (Bette Davis) [newspaper/strike]
• “One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.” (Cleo Moore) [newspaper/waste]
• “I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news. But having a picture of my foot on the front page of a national newspaper is a bit exceptional.” (David Beckham) [news/newspaper]
• I probably rely on the newspaper for the news. But it isn't consistent, it has a lot to do with my schedule at the time. (Tabitha Soren) [newspaper/news/time]
• I probably rely on the newspaper for the news. But it isn't consistent, it has a lot to do with my schedule at the time. (Tabitha Soren) [newspaper/news/time]
• It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that. (Tabitha Soren) [nice/newspaper/provide]
• “It was written in some newspaper that I'm a Japanese Britney Spears. I like her, and she's fun to watch, but I don't get the sense that she's her own creation. Who I really like is Madonna. What I admire is she's made it on her own terms.” (Ayumi Hamasaki) [newspaper/watch/creation]
• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. (Hannes Alfven) [people/universe/newspaper/land]

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