Quotes tagged ‘Newspapers’

“Well, if it's in the papers, it must be true!”

— Julian Fellowes, Tom Branson, Allen Leech, imdb.com

“Bonnie's Mother: You know Clyde, I read about you all in the papers, and I just get scared. Clyde Barrow: Now Ms. Parker, don't you believe what you read in all them newspapers. That's the law talkin' there. They want us to look big so they gonna look big when they catch us. And they ain't gonna cat…”

— David Newman, Robert Benton, Robert Towne, Clyde Barrow, Warren Beatty, imdb.com

“Home delivery is for newspapers, not for babies!”

— Bill Idelson, harvey miller, Oscar Madison, Jack Klugman, imdb.com

“The continuous mutual abuse of groups holding differing views, which we witness in the newspapers, will certainly never lead to progress. Abuse convinces no one; it only degrades and brutalizes the abuser. Lies and unjust accusations achieve still less; they often finally boomerang on those who orig…”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodore-roosevelt.com

“Always bring New York or The New Yorker (or, shameless plug, ELLE!) to get a manicure. You'll be surprised how much better it is than those weekly tabloids.”

— Justine Harman, elle.com

“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, amazon.com

“"In many ways, the decline of Macy's, as well as the pulverization of the stock of discount chain Kohl's after a terrible quarter and guidance today, is like what happened to the newspaper industry and the book store space," he said. Cramer explained that ‘both Macy's and Kohl's saw the Internet com…”

— Ken Doctor, Jim Cramer, politico.com

“As one savvy newspaper strategist puts it, ‘The change in the large retail brands like Macy's, Kohls, Walmart, and JCPenney is to hold onto TV while investing into digital video and to spend more on digital, especially heavy programmatic advertising. ‘They tell us,’ he continues, ‘that print spendin…”

— Ken Doctor, politico.com

“Newspapers are an essential element and symbol of the peculiar spirit and tendency which characterizes our civilization. There is no place to which they do not penetrate; no object which they may not serve; no description of person to whom they are not welcome.”

— William Empson, amazon.com

“Actually it is the Press, more specifically the daily newspaper...which makes Christianity impossible.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, socrates.berkeley.edu

“Goethe is not disturbed because of this restless urge for novelty in itself, but rather because it prevents the kind of ripening that is essential to the creative process—that in the constant reading of newspapers about the events of yesterday. For instance, one 'wastes the days and lives from hand…”

— Leo Löwenthal, amazon.com

“We have newspapers for all hours of the day. A clever head could still add a few more. This way everything, what everybody does, wants, writes, even what he plans, is publicly exposed. One can only enjoy oneself, or suffer, for the entertainment of others, and in the greatest rush, this is communica…”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com