If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of...
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.
I've always found old bookstores exciting. Whenever I'm in a city that's new to me, I immedicately look through the telephone directory for BOOKS, USED AND RARE. Book dealers send me their catalogs, a...
I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there had still been portable money, it would have been more difficult. It was after...
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.
If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds d...
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations.