Top 100 Quotes About Headlines
#1. I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines,
Warren Buffett
#2. Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.
Mark McKinnon
#3. Islamic jihadists making sacrifices tended to create gruesome headlines.--Titus Ray, Chapter 29
Luana Ehrlich
#4. The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#5. When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs
#6. I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.
David Ogilvy
#7. Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
Peter Coyote
#8. No trial, no sensational headlines, no mud-slinging just to sell newspapers without the slightest regard for truth or fair play or for the feelings of innocent people.
Raymond Chandler
#9. I have enjoyed anchoring at 'Headline News' but have decided that it is time for me to make a change in my daily professional life.
Andrea Thompson
#10. My God ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
Wade Boggs
#11. You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate ... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation ...
Patrick Symmes
#12. Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Nancy Duarte
#13. I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.
M. Leighton
#14. Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.
Eric Berne
#15. The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest
Claude C. Hopkins
#16. Remember that the headline and the appeals are ONE AND THE SAME. In successful ads, the appeal is almost always expressed in the headline.
John Caples
#17. The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
Gary Barlow
#19. If I want to make something known, I have to make a concerted effort to get the word out. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, only has to say something, and it's tomorrow's headlines.
Tim Finchem
#20. Are we going somewhere?" "To the river." "But why?" "To see what we can see." "I really d-don't think . . ." We were going to end up as newspaper headlines: Pensioner and Homosexual Found Dead in River - Coincidence, Tragedy, or Satanic Ritual Gone Wrong?
Alexis Hall
#22. Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.
Armando Iannucci
#23. I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
Edward Zwick
#24. Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.
Katie Nolan
#26. The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
Val McDermid
#27. While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#28. You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.
Michael Hyatt
#29. I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.
Amy Schumer
#30. You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.
S. Truett Cathy
#31. Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.
Billy Squier
#32. A long headline that really says something is more effective than a brief heading that says nothing.
John Caples
#33. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.
Derek Jeter
#34. Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.
John Caples
#35. Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through
Timothy Ferriss
#36. It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.
John Irving
#37. History's long arc is different than the today's headlines.
Condoleezza Rice
#38. My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top.
Pattie Mallette
#39. The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
Indira Gandhi
#40. Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.
Kristin Cavallari
#41. Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.
Howard S. Becker
#42. The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.
John Caples
#43. When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.
Billy Graham
#44. The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.
John Caples
#45. A new life? There's not such thing.
It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
#46. He was going to die. He could see the headlines now. Naked Runt Suffocated by a Sleeping Giant.
S.J.D. Peterson
#47. There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, "God hates fags" and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.
Shane Claiborne
#48. It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
Gwen Ifill
#49. The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.
Ernest A. Fitzgerald
#50. It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money ...
David Ogilvy
#51. Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.
John Irving
#52. Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.
Nick Denton
#53. Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.
Paul Kagame
#54. For each article, Upworthy writes a minimum of 25 different headlines. Then the company does various A/B tests with its subscription lists to see which headline led to the most e-mail opens and the most shares.
Joe Pulizzi
#55. What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.
Joseph Pulitzer
#56. You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.
Santosh Kalwar
#57. There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. "Oh God, no. It's Pancake Day." I thought about shooting myself. I could see the headlines: Sheriff shoots self, unable to face pancakes.
Craig Johnson
#58. What God does in the tiny corners of our day-to-day lives is stunning and gorgeous and headline-making, but we have a bad habit of saving the headlines for the grotesque and scary.
Shauna Niequist
#59. But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside ...
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Rachel Simon
#60. I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Cat Stevens
#61. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt
#62. It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.
Deborah Tannen
#63. I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.
Donald Rumsfeld
#64. I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.
Clark Gable
#65. For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#66. People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print.
Jennifer Lee
#67. The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.
Ruskin Bond
#68. I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.
Rich Sommer
#69. Hot off the presses, today's headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways," Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. "Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider - he is a bit of a killjoy.
Libba Bray
#70. It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
Bob Schieffer
#71. God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.
Billy Graham
#72. Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.
John Caples
#73. They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
Ogden Nash
#74. There's always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I'm always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don't see my picture on the front.
Jimmy Carter
#75. 'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#76. Leadership - in both the Service and the administration - often conveyed the message that bad behavior was truly bad only if it made headlines. I called it the Caesar mentality: Do as I say, not as I do, or off with your head.
Gary J. Byrne
#77. It scarcely made a column of newspaper space, but it wrote headlines in their lives.
Erich Segal
#78. I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.
George W. Bush
#79. I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.
Geert Wilders
#80. While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time.
Chris Hadfield
#81. I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
Imelda May
#82. In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.
Graydon Carter
#83. It's still a great, big, beautiful, wonderful world no matter what the headlines of the newspapers are and it's there to be explored. It's there for our children to go out and explore and explore different cultures and learn from it. I never lose hope.
Liam Neeson
#84. Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.
Sam Rayburn
#85. Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.
Glenn Greenwald
#86. Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.
Dave Barry
#87. I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.
Dick Cheney
#88. It is so easy to demonize free-market and the freedom to outsource and offshore because it is so much easier to see people being laid off in big bunches, which makes headlines, than to see them being hired in fives and tens by small and medium-sized companies, which rarely makes news.
Thomas L. Friedman
#89. I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's somebody I play.
Daniel Craig
#90. Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.
Jack Kelly
#91. I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#92. Yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated automatically on every hour;
Arthur C. Clarke
#93. But big headlines in the papers every day, and whatever the newspaper and the radio say in this country, that's the people Bible.
Samuel Selvon
#94. I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.
Kid Rock
#95. Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
Rod Stewart
#96. But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
Amos Oz
#97. You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.
Harry S. Truman
#98. You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows
Vakill
#99. Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance.
John Caples
#100. Mexico has made a mistake. Alone, it fights a war against a global phenomenon that only matters to a few. That makes the headlines in every case because of its unusual cruelty.
Sabina Berman
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