(505 quotes found)
“The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one”
Mark Twain
“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”
James D. Watson
“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego”
Jack London
“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.”
Ben Hecht
“With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.”
Bette Davis
“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.”
Bill Watterson
“Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper”
Kin Hubbard
“There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own”
James Fenimore Cooper
“In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.”
Hugo Black
