#papers

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.' ↗

— Eric Alterman

#baseball #chain #financial #folks #food

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bloom #cleaning #could #county #draw

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#despite #every #few #frankly #go

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#box #box office #budget #fake #horrified

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#family #government #materials #million #nixon

I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on. ↗

— Marc Davis

#did #had #hollywood #i #me

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#burlesque #difference #exposure #former #never

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers. ↗

— Spike Lee

#america #bombarded #culture #dominant #every

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#everywhere #news #newspapers #people #read