Short News Quotes

#1. People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

Mary Hart

#2. Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?

Nick Davies

#3. 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

#4. So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

George Saunders

#5. (On her son) I've met writer's block. He is short, diapered and keeps unplugging my laptop. Good news: he can be conquered with a bottle and a nap.

Cyrese Covelli

#6. Soon, the pain will be over!

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to Fox News. What I'm arguing is that, in fact, what we've been told is a lie.

Naomi Klein

#8. It is not the job for those who are angry about the events of the day to strike out and post things that they hope will incite anger in others as well. Do not sell your social media friends short as far as their ability to find the news for themselves.

John Patrick Hickey

#9. At conferences, black boys were assembled. At schools we were herded into auditoriums. At home, mothers summoned us to dinner tables, and there they delivered the news: Our time was short.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. It's not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria - to believe that most of what's in the financial news is wrong, to believe that most important financial people are either lying or deluded - without being insane.

Michael Lewis

#11. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen

#12. With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

Bruce Cameron

#13. It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Kurt Loder

#14. If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

Kurt Andersen

#15. Unfortunately," he said, "we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.

Jack McDevitt

#16. Sometimes the news so shocks the mind that the brain suffers an electrical short. This phenomenon is known as a "psychogenic" syndrome, a severe version of the swoon some experience after hearing bad news.

Paul Kalanithi

#17. I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.

Brian Henson

#19. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

Anne Lamott