Bad Newspaper Quotes

#1. It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine.
(on Tom Wolfe)

John Irving

#2. Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

Arthur Christiansen

#3. Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

Leonard Read

#4. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

#5. The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

Floyd Abrams

#6. The smaller newspapers probably won't have any critics at all. Maybe that's not such a bad thing because there's a certain level of seriousness that you can't get with a small newspaper for critics.

Terry Teachout

#7. I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

Richard M. Nixon

#8. It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them.

Ji-li Jiang

#9. AND STOP BELLY-DANCING WITH BIRDS, NORWAY, IT'S INHUMANE!

America

#10. Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

Dougray Scott

#11. God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you're praying for a million dollars and God said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested," it's done, in Jesus' name.

Pat Robertson

#12. The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

Tom Burke

#13. He had a newspaper rolled in his hand, bearing down on me like a puppy that had piddled on the carpet.
"Bad Chloe," I muttered.
"What?"
I'd forgotten his bionic hearing. "Bad Chloe." I gestured at the rolled-up paper and put
out my hand. "Get it over with.

Kelley Armstrong

#14. The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper

Bill Aitken

#15. The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence.

Amit Ray

#16. Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

Haruki Murakami

#17. We had a bad summer here, my friend. Local folks keep it as quiet as they can - even the newspaper doesn't play it up - but there was some nasty work. Murders. Half a dozen at least. Kids. Found one down in the Barrens just recently. Patrick Hockstetter, his name was. All decayed.

Stephen King

#18. You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

Lena Dunham

#19. None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others.

Margaret Atwood

#20. Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.

Timothy Ferriss

#21. I work best when people are here to puncture me.

Tom Bergeron

#22. Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body.

Cory Booker

#23. The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

Chuck Klosterman

#24. I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Mitch Kapor

#25. I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.

Mitch Hedberg

#26. The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

Tom Wolfe

#27. Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

Phil Gramm

#28. Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards.

Jane V. Blanchard

#29. The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

Alex Scarrow