News Quotes - Page 27

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

We want someone to bring us the news.

I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.

I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.

But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

I heard about crack on the news and I was like, "Oh, that's what the niggas must be doing." And when I kept coming outside, I was doing my own little jostlin' to get my money.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.

No day is safe from news of you.

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.