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News Quotes - Page 36

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

"Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

"Valérie Trierweiler: France's femme formidable" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!

"Celebrities Tweet Responses to Winehouse's Death" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 23, 2011.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Tucker Carlson (2003). “Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News”, p.6, Hachette UK

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

"Tori Amos: 'I'd start the day with three dozen oysters then a rare steak. I felt powerful on stage'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.491

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press