News Quotes - page 4

Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. View quote
James Reston
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. View quote
Diane Sawyer
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
The world news might not be therapeutic. View quote
Ken Kesey
Aping Urbanity, Oozing with Vanity Plump as a Manatee, Faking Humanity Journalistic Calamity, Intellectual Inanity Fox News Insanity, You're a profanity Hannity. View quote
John Cleese
the public never is independently responsive to news. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day... The lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own. View quote
Adrienne Rich
There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail? View quote
Dean Koontz
Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person. It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. View quote
Joss Whedon
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear. (Joss Whedon)
But at some point, you know that- you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." View quote
Glenn Beck
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The news and the truth are not the same thing. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld. View quote
Carl Bernstein
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. View quote
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Evil news fly faster still than good. View quote
Thomas Kyd
My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News. View quote
Howard Dean
I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. (Rory Bremner)
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. View quote
Henry Fielding
It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children.... View quote
Thomas Pynchon
If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one. View quote
Reggie Fils-Aimé
(On his Emmy nomination) I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat. View quote
Will Arnett