Quotes and Sayings about Newspapers

Media Journalism

Quotes and Sayings about Newspapers

We all know, of course, what to make of our newspapers. The deaf man writes down what the blind man has told him, the village idiot edits it, and their colleagues in the other press houses copy it.

Timur Vermes in Look Who's Back

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Come on Ted, it's 2012. What do you expect, to meet some cute travel agent when you're reading a newspaper at a bookstore? None of those things exist anymore!

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 22

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How about a copy of the New York Times? It's like reading the internet, but on paper!

Juan Ruiz in The Imperfects - Season 1 Episode 1

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Will Rogers

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

Jerry Seinfeld

Social media has given us the world at our fingertips every morning. And we watch it change, live. In the morning, in the old days, we'd read the 'Post,' and that was what we had.

Elvis Duran

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

You can't sell newspapers by saying nice things about something, you can only sell newspapers by creating controversies. Critics aren't creators, they're destroyers.

George Lucas

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

Tammy Faye Bakker

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

Janine di Giovanni

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What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.

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I won't go forward looking in the rearview mirror of my life. This is who I am.

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