Hearst Quotes

#1. [To W.R. Hearst:] Love is not always created at the altar. Love doesn't need a wedding ring.

Marion Davies

#2. The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

Richard Schickel

#3. Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#4. True history," said Hearst, with a smile that was, for once, almost charming, "is the final fiction. I thought even you knew that.

Gore Vidal

#5. Miss Rogers waved a hand. "But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all!"
"Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels?"
"These are civilized rebels, young man. They have movie deals!"
"That's no guarantee of sanity!

Scott Westerfeld

#6. In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

Jill Lepore

#7. Hey, get a nice shot of the brand-new Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley!

Triple H

#8. It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

Allen Ginsberg

#9. My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.

Brigid Berlin

#10. Hearst's papers and magazines" were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred "the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#11. I was not born to crush my own kind.

George Hearst

#12. I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

Patty Hearst

#13. If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

William Randolph Hearst

#14. News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.

William Randolph Hearst

#15. Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.

James Hearst

#16. I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

Amanda Hearst

#17. Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me.

Patty Hearst

#18. I do remember that I was very relieved that I did not have to go into a bank with them. I had, as you recall, I had already been brought into a bank before and it was better to be sitting outside.

Patty Hearst

#19. We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

William Randolph Hearst

#20. If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Amanda Hearst

#21. It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.

William Randolph Hearst

#22. A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.

Amanda Hearst

#23. You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.

George Hearst

#24. I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

Patty Hearst

#25. In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

William Randolph Hearst

#26. And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

Patty Hearst

#27. I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

Patty Hearst

#28. They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.

Patty Hearst

#29. I would say I'm pretty minimal. Comfort is key. So during the day, it's usually, like, jeans and a sweater. But for evening wear, I'll dress up a bit.

Amanda Hearst

#30. You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

George Hearst

#31. I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Patty Hearst

#32. British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

William Randolph Hearst

#33. When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

William Randolph Hearst

#34. One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons ... and do some amazing shopping!

Amanda Hearst

#35. I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]

Cary Ann Hearst

#36. I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

Patty Hearst

#37. You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

Patty Hearst

#38. We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right.

William Randolph Hearst

#39. And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.

Patty Hearst

#40. People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.

Patty Hearst

#41. I'm a really big advocate of ethical fashion. I actually have a travelling boutique called Maison de Mode, which is all about ethical fashion. I also like Maiyet from Paris. They're very Celine-esque in their silhouettes. I love their back story, too: they work with orphans in Colombia and India.

Amanda Hearst

#42. There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

Patty Hearst

#43. Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

William Randolph Hearst

#44. You can crush a man with journalism.

William Randolph Hearst

#45. In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.

Amanda Hearst

#46. My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

William Randolph Hearst

#47. There's no denying that Christy Turlington looks good in everything, but it's especially great when she uses her supermodel looks and charitable spirit to support the organization she founded, Every Mother Counts.

Amanda Hearst

#48. I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

Patty Hearst

#49. You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.

Patty Hearst

#50. A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

#51. Melissa Biggs Bradley spent a decade as Travel Editor of 'Town & Country,' and later served as the founding editor of 'Town & Country Travel.' She then launched Indagare Souk, an online marketplace of global treasures.

Amanda Hearst

#52. I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.

Amanda Hearst

#53. I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.

Patty Hearst

#54. All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

William Randolph Hearst

#55. Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

Patty Hearst

#56. I can't imagine what it's like to go through life without shoes to protect your feet, and yet millions of kids do it. That's why TOMS is such an incredible company - it gives shoes to children who need them!

Amanda Hearst

#57. If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Arthur Brisbane

#58. It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

William Randolph Hearst

#59. Most criminals are not born; they are made ... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

William Randolph Hearst

#60. Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

George Hearst

#61. The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

William Randolph Hearst

#62. Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

#63. I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.

Patty Hearst

#64. There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Patty Hearst

#65. If you make a product good enough ... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

William Randolph Hearst

#66. Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.

Amanda Hearst

#67. But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

Patty Hearst

#68. Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

Patty Hearst

#69. Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

William Randolph Hearst

#70. But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

Patty Hearst

#71. I, for one, would keep the promise I had made.

Dorothy Hearst

#72. Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years.

Patty Hearst

#73. For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

Patty Hearst

#74. The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

William Randolph Hearst

#75. I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

Amanda Hearst

#76. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

William Randolph Hearst

#77. You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.

Patty Hearst

#78. And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

Patty Hearst

#79. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

#80. It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

Patty Hearst

#81. There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.

Patty Hearst

#82. My closet is a sea of black pants, skirts, tops, and bags, so it's great to come across a brand that makes me want to break out of my fashion rut! The Sequence Collection is an accessories line that is all about color, from funky woven bracelets to brightly-patterned bags.

Amanda Hearst

#83. You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.

William Randolph Hearst

#84. I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

Amanda Hearst

#85. We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

William Randolph Hearst

#86. I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

Cary Ann Hearst

#87. Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

Patty Hearst

#88. Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Patty Hearst

#89. And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

Patty Hearst

#90. The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently.

Patty Hearst

#91. Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark
well-intentioned, but ineffective.

William Randolph Hearst

#92. I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.

Patty Hearst

#93. Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.

Amanda Hearst

#94. And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.

Patty Hearst

#95. If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

William Randolph Hearst

#96. Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

William Randolph Hearst

#97. I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.

Amanda Hearst

#98. I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

William Randolph Hearst

#99. I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

Patty Hearst

#100. Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Amanda Hearst