Top 32 W R Hearst Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About W R Hearst

#1. [To W.R. Hearst:] Love is not always created at the altar. Love doesn't need a wedding ring.

#2. Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Amanda Hearst

#3. Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

William Randolph Hearst

#4. The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

William Randolph Hearst

#5. Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

George Hearst

#6. Most criminals are not born; they are made ... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

William Randolph Hearst

#7. It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

William Randolph Hearst

#8. If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Arthur Brisbane

#9. Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

Patty Hearst

#10. I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.

Patty Hearst

#11. I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

Patty Hearst

#12. I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

William Randolph Hearst

#13. The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

Richard Schickel

#14. I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.

Amanda Hearst

#15. Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

William Randolph Hearst

#16. If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

William Randolph Hearst

#17. I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap.

Amanda Hearst

#18. There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Patty Hearst

#19. If you make a product good enough ... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

William Randolph Hearst

#20. Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.

Amanda Hearst

#21. But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

Patty Hearst

#22. I can't imagine what it's like to go through life without shoes to protect your feet, and yet millions of kids do it. That's why TOMS is such an incredible company - it gives shoes to children who need them!

Amanda Hearst

#23. Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

William Randolph Hearst

#24. But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

Patty Hearst

#25. I, for one, would keep the promise I had made.

Dorothy Hearst

#26. Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years.

Patty Hearst

#27. Hearst's papers and magazines" were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred "the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging.

Doris Kearns Goodwin