Quotes About News

#1. The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

John F. Kerry

#3. Susan was on the West Coast with a guy friend. That was the bad news. The

Robert B. Parker

#4. If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

David Gergen

#5. So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

Morley Safer

#6. The good news is that crisis is filled with opportunity.

Joy Balma

#7. The news coverage was as controlled and accurate as a fire hose wielded by a preschooler.

Jem Fox

#8. Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

Julian Bond

#9. Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

Felix Salmon

#10. The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

Rupert Murdoch

#12. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
[News conference, April 21 1961]

John F. Kennedy

#14. Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#15. Don't they watch the news? Uranus isn't even a planet anymore.

Richard Price

#16. The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Timothy Keller

#17. Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

Rob Brown

#18. We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.

Martin Luther

#19. I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

Mike Barnicle

#20. Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt affect how some stories catch on and travel far wider than others.

Alfred Hermida

#21. I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

Warren Christopher

#22. Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

Tina Fey

#23. Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Bobby Seale

#24. African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

William J. Clinton

#25. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Billy Graham

#26. When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Kenneth Rexroth

#27. The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

I. F. Stone

#28. The Gospel should never be dull, for it is the most exciting and relevant news we could ever receive. When we find it dull, it is a warning sign that something is going on inside us and we need to take action to correct it.

Billy Graham

#29. I'll turn on the TV or look at a magazine, and it's like, 'Who is this person?' And you find out they are from '16 and Pregnant,' and I'm like, 'Really? They're celebrities now?' You read about them on the news having fights and breakups, and I think, 'Well, of course.'

Josh Hopkins

#30. The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed ... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.

Al Gore

#31. I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Chris Wallace

#32. It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

Malcolm Turnbull

#33. Well, you should have a chat with your boyfriend, clarify your desires. Hate to break the news, but, uh, he's cheatin' on you. Tell him I said my dog kisses better than him and he hits like a girl.

Courtney Vail

#34. I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

Sam Waterston

#35. People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

Corey Feldman

#36. In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

Jane Pauley

#37. So much for the journalist and the news being mutually exclusive. Nash

Chuck Palahniuk

#38. The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

Sarah Silverman

#39. In a culture dominated, if not by violence, then certainly by overheated reports of it dished out by a ratings-starved news media, it reassured her that the love of peace and natural order was still extant in the human soul.

Nevada Barr

#40. MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.

Bill Dedman

#41. I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

LeVar Burton

#42. The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

Leon Panetta

#43. A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.

Dana Gould

#44. Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

Chris Martin

#45. Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

Billy Graham

#46. News is the best drama on television because it's real.

Deborah Turness

#47. Maybe there's hope for her after all. I'm upgrading her future potential to trophy wife and/or anchorwoman on the local news.

Chelsea M. Campbell

#48. Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Elizabeth Edwards

#49. We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.

Stephen Colbert

#50. Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.

Don Lemon

#51. On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test cards.

A. Ashley Straker

#52. The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

Rosario Dawson

#53. Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

Christopher Titus

#54. Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.

Billy Crystal

#55. 'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

Henry Rollins

#56. The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

John Yarmuth

#57. The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry.

Jay Leno

#58. News is only the first rough draft of history.

Alan Barth

#59. Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

Chuck Schumer

#60. If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

William Shakespeare

#61. We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

Lev Yilmaz

#62. We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.

David Cameron

#63. 29Then He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith, let it be done for you." 30And their eyes were opened. And Yeshua warned them sternly, "See that no one knows." 31But they went out and spread the news about Him all around that region.

Messianic Jewish Family

#64. It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

Maureen Johnson

#65. I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

Michael Connelly

#66. The news is glorified gossip.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#67. Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

Robert A. Heinlein

#68. Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?

Jay Leno

#69. I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

Arianna Huffington

#70. My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

Al Franken

#71. I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention.

Erika Lopez

#72. The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,' are the tone of life, which isn't a setup punch-line every two minutes.

Jason Segel

#73. And I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues
And a preacher on the old time gospel hour
Stealing money from the sick and the old
Well the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister!

Bono

#74. The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

Ray Bradbury

#75. You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You are unique; so are others!

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Ted Nugent

#77. For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.

Lionel Barber

#78. I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.

Angelina Jolie

#79. Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

Philip Massinger

#80. That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

David Attenborough

#81. The Good News of Jesus spread not through extravagant preachers, but through everyday people whose lives had been transformed by the power of Christ.

David Platt

#82. A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

Alexandra Robbins

#83. Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.

Henry B. Eyring

#84. One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Michael Korda

#85. Achieving the right balance is all part of programming a news magazine.

Jonathan Kern

#86. I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

Mose Allison

#87. The link economy encourages bloggers to repeat what "other people are saying" and link to it instead of doing their own reporting and standing behind it. This changes the news from what has happened into what someone said the news is.

Ryan Holiday

#88. So scary watching the news ... Like Iraq ... could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.

Bill Hicks

#89. He gave me a look, but in the dusk I couldn't make out very well what it conveyed. Then he bent over his mother, kissing her. "My news isn't particularly satisfactory. I'm going for you." "Oh you humbug!" she replied. But she was of course delighted. CHAPTER

Henry James

#90. When girls were permitted to wear slacks to Creelman on Saturdays in 1963, it was headline news in the Ontarion.

James G. Snell

#91. There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.

Tommy Mottola

#92. The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men ... Every Christian is to be a witness;
every follower of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#93. I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

Jerry Springer

#94. On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

Samantha Power

#95. Educators are in the news, too. Usually that's bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you're probably going to jail.

Tucker Elliot

#96. If the news is that important, it will find me.

Brian Stelter

#97. Life goes on in the same manner,
evil wins and peace is slaughtered.
Change the channel, change the view,
tired of the same reruns on the evening news.

Susie Clevenger

#98. I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

Nancy Lublin

#99. Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

Conan O'Brien

#100. There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

Jeffrey Toobin