If It Bleeds It Leads Quotes

#1. Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

John Prendergast

#2. The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Peter Diamandis

#3. There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

Armstrong Williams

#4. We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Jason Silva

#5. Nobody knows anything ... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

William Goldman

#6. My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

Stephen Sondheim

#7. Irritation instigates emotion, and emotion opens the door for change. Not at first - first comes anger. But anger eventually bleeds into reflection, and reflection breeds acceptance. And acceptance - that's what leads to change.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#8. I meet many a man, working ridiculous house for a wage that merely adds to their happiness, and if man can be so pre-occupied in waking for another's dream; than my experience has taught me one thing, the magic of our world exists in those who create alchemy from the dirt they have been shoved upon.

Nikki Rowe

#9. After all, the life itself shows a completely useless, hopeless and indifferent blank face, a deduction of no more than a blank canvas.
[Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

#10. It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.

Rollo May

#11. I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

Harold Ramis

#12. In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

Robert Dale Owen

#13. Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness ... a message of love, a message of unity.

Stephen Marley

#14. My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

Chesley Sullenberger

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#16. To look ahead one must learn to look back.

Henry Dreyfuss