News Quotes - Page 23

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

I studiously avoid the darkest places of the Internet. Sometimes you can't avoid it because you're doing a legitimate news search and something pops up, but I don't breathe that stuff in because I think it's a carcinogen.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.

So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.