Quotes of NEWS

News Quotes

“Why were you lurking under our window?"
"Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"
"Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.
His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
"Listening to the news! Again?"
"Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“كل يوم أكتشف في وطني مجداً جديداً
وعاراً جديداً
أخباراً ترفع الرأس
وأخرى ترفع الضغط”
― محمد الماغوط

“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca

“You totally need to watch the news."
"Can't."
"Why?"
"It's too depressing."
"Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.”
― Darynda Jones, Third Grave Dead Ahead

“Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
― Arthur Miller

“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. ”
― Dave Barry

“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.”
― Bruce Sterling

“News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.”
― Abe Kōbō, The Woman in the Dunes

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal.

For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. ”
― Edward Said

“If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.”
― Wes Nisker

“. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late. ”
― Edward R. Murrow

“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings about the way some guy fucked her and didn't call. But I don't believe in a finite economy of empathy; I happen to think that paying attention yields as much as it taxes.”

― Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams

New's Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old news quotes, news sayings, and news proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.     

Doug Larson

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News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.     

Charles Bukowski

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News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.     

Steven Magee

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News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.     

Gay Talese

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The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.     

Javier Bardem

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News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.     

Katharine Graham

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News used to come too late; now it comes too early.     

Marty Rubin

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The news and the truth are not the same thing.     

Walter Lippmann

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News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.     

Lord Northcliffe

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News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.     

Walter Cronkite

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News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.     

John Oliver

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News is only the first rough draft of history.     

Alan Barth

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All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.     

George Orwell

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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.     

Jessica Savitc

 Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. 

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

 Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. 

- Jean Paul

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

- Milan Kundera

 Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. 

- Thomas Jefferson

 I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. 

- Tom Petty

 Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. 

- Colin Powell

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 Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. 

- Graham Greene

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 Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. 

- Adlai Stevenson

 I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you. 

- Nicole Kidman

 The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. 

- Anne Sullivan

 CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, It's not so bad. 

- Conan O\'Brien

 Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me. 

- Conan O\'Brien

 In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath. 

- Conan O\'Brien

 If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. 

- Lord Acton

 Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'? 

- Jay Leno

 The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales 

- Howard Stern

 The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off. 

- Bob Hope

 I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy. 

- Calvin Klein

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

- Adrienne Rich

 A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. 

- Garrison Keillor

 My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer. 

- Carrie Underwood

 No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. 

- Charles Spurgeon

 Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? 

- Jean Anouilh

 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. 

- Ben Hecht

 Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline. 

- Walter Winchell

 Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. 

- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

 I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. 

- Hillary Clinton

 One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy. 

- Hillary Clinton

 I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. 

- Tina Brown

 While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. 

- Tom Brokaw