#papers

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#bad #few #highest #i #i love

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#busily #different #entitlement #experimenting #felt

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#last #newspapers #politicians #running #thing

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. ↗

— Robert Welch

#declaring #democracy #editorials #newspapers #ringing

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. ↗

— James Wolcott

#high-school #like #mailer #norman #norman mailer

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#christianity #had #i #john #luke

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#i #i think #like #newspapers #now

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#buy #crack #every #fabric #i