News Quotes: Daily Dose of Headline Wisdom

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth"

Sophocles, Author

"To the old, the new is usually bad news"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising"

Lord Northcliffe, Publisher

"The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable"

Stan Jones, Politician

"The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless"

Malcolm Campbell, Celebrity

"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper"

Arthur Christiansen, Journalist

"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty"

Thomas Griffith, Editor

"But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us"

Leslie Banks, Actor

"God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper"

Jerry Seinfeld, Comedian

"I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories"

Dave Barry, Author

"If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life"

Howard Coble, Politician

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