Newsprint Quotes

#1. Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Rupert Murdoch

#2. Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends.
Ilan's hand covered hers briefly as he plucked the charcoal from her hand and wrote beneath her words, you have me.

Dia Reeves

#3. There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Alexander Cockburn

#4. Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.

Colin M. Morris

#5. For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. The wooden shelves were tall and packed with worn covers of books read many times over. Pages were yellowed and paperbacks had arched spines like old sway-backed horses. It was an old folks' home for secondhand books, with that smell of old newsprint and slightly musty wood smell.

Nathan Fillion

#7. Isabella entered her dining room in the morning to see two newspapers held by two sets of male hands, one set large and muscular, the other narrower and bonier. The occasional crunch of toast sounded behind the sheets of newsprint. Isabella

Jennifer Ashley

#8. Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Erica Jong

#9. The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Peter York

#10. newsprint to her mother. "This fire," she said. "The

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Robert Duvall

#12. Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#13. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.

Raymond Chandler

#14. If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

David Harvey

#15. I'm way too disorganized.

Hope Davis

#16. As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.

Irene Khan

#17. Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.

Benny Green

#18. We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

Bob Ross

#19. All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

Jo Nesbo

#20. Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.

Elisabeth Badinter

#21. All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature. It was actually property.

Kate Grenville

#22. Mobile is something I think about all the time now.

Matt Cohler

#23. While it wasn't a total given that all members of the Color Guard also belonged to the Chastity Club, twirling flags was considered one of the most wholesome activities on campus, meaning the ratio of Chastity girls in Color Guard was something like that of Mormons in Utah.

Gemma Halliday