Quotes of News - somelinesforyou

“ False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, rememb'red tolling a departing friend. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ”

- Bible

“ I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. ”

- Gloria Borger

“ News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ No news is good news. ”

- Ludovic Halévy

“ The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ”

- David Brinkley

“ News, news, news-that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper. ”

- Arthur Christiansen

“ A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ”

- Voltaire

“ When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. ”

- Kenneth Rexroth

“ The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. ”

- David Brinkley

“ When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. ”

- Charles Anderson Dana

“ When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. ”

- John B. Bogart

“ Look before, or you'll find yourself behind. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ News is the first rough draft of history. ”

- Philip L. Graham

“ News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Cliches walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ None loves the messenger who brings bad news. ”

- Sophocles

“ One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears; And now, to add more measure to your woes, I come to tell you things sith then befallen. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Today's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens. ”

- Unknown

“ Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go. ”

- Joe Slovo
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