#pap

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#cent #excess #greed #i #idiot

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#finish #going #lifetime #make #newspaper

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#chin #column #fence #getting #given

Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#city #day #deal #fairly #forward

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#books #lifeless #lumps #minds #paper

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#brain #excited #get #i #novel

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ↗

— David Hilbert

#certain #game #marks #mathematics #meaningless

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#could #going #had #hang #incense

It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#agreed #article #came #go #hollywood