| "I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper'" »Daniel J. Boorstin |
| "It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill |
| "A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste." »Whitney Balliett |
| "Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius |
| "Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan |
| "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." »Henry Fielding |
| "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." »Arthur Miller |
| "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." »Norman Mailer |
| "We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'" »Michel MacLiammir |
| "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." »Aleister Crowley |
| "Editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on." »Harry S Truman |
| "Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones." »Albert Einstein |
| "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal |
| "Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward." »Finley Peter Dunne |
| "Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you." »Helen Rowland |
| "It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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