News Quotes

"What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news"

Sean Bean, Actor

"But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved"

Marie de France, Poet

"The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements.""

Frank Dane

"President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me"

Juan Cole, Educator

"With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism"

Annie Besant, Philosopher

"Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

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