Quotes About Old Newspapers

#1. I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

Jack Benny

#2. He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The curious news. The quaint concerns.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.

Amanda Coplin

#4. I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

Nancy Bird Walton

#6. Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

Craig Newmark

#7. Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

John Galt

#8. They came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

Stephen King

#9. The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Lionel Barber

#10. People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

Michael Dirda

#11. I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

Colum McCann

#12. Mom stopped reading, closed the book, and started laughing her ass off. Behind her a bunch of old dudes reading newspapers looked up at her, all disapproving, like she'd just farted or something.

Walter Sorrells

#13. A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

H.G.Wells

#14. You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

James Wolk

#15. You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Frank Shorter

#16. We live in a bewildering world.

Stephen Hawking

#17. Now I was truly offended. "I don't read romance novels," I hissed, "I read gay fiction.

Nick Pageant

#18. Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.

Jill Telford

#19. I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

Umberto Eco

#20. Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

George William Curtis

#21. Lots of old guys wore beige trench coats and those flat caps that made them look like boys who sold newspapers a hundred years ago.

A.J. Cattapan

#22. What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?
Experience, old people's experience.

Isak Dinesen

#23. I think funniness is a sign of intelligence.

Chelsea Martin

#24. I never read the paper myself. Why bother? It's the same old shit day in and day out, dictators beating the ching-chong out of people weaker than they are, men in uniforms beating the ching-chong out of soccer balls or footballs, politicians kissing babies and kissing ass.

Stephen King

#25. If the newspapers reported the truth, if they wrote about the mud and filth and the body parts littering the ground and how young men look old before their time, would we still be here?

M.K. Tod

#26. Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#27. To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.

Eugene Mirman

#28. The foreign newspapers had dumped the old exotics in favor of the younger generation. The exotics didn't suit the image of the New India - a nuclear power and an emerging destination for international finance. Ustad

Arundhati Roy

#29. I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

Harry Browne

#30. expect your daddy wanted to give you time to think

Jerusha Agen

#31. Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Marcus Aurelius

#32. I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

Ted Turner

#33. Why hadn't she been a detective instead of a goddamn stupid third-class civil rights lawyer? She hated the law. It took an aggressive, assertive personality. She didn't have it. She had a sneaky, sly, shy, squamous personality. She had French diseases of the soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin