Great Headline Quotes & Sayings

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world. — Naomi Shihab Nye

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind. — Dick Vitale

She struggled to think of anyone besides perhaps James Baldwin and Jesus who had experiences the profound isolation and loenliness she now knew to be the one and only true reality of this world. — Zadie Smith

The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite. — Mark Teixeira

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there. — Andie MacDowell

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper's stance on the great big headline letters is: You got 'em, you use 'em. — Barbara Kingsolver

You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod. — Michael Hyatt

Good! Brad thought. Great! I can see the headline now: MORGANTOWN MYSTERY DISEASE FELLS ALL CHILDREN, BUT TOLL PALES IN COMPARISON WITH BLACK DEATH. CDC OFFICIALS GREATLY RELIEVED! — Chet Williamson

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times. — Anna Wintour

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment. — Jo Brand

Whatever it was, it was something you could dance to, or lie down on the floor, close your eyes, and weep to. — Kelly Keaton

I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you can't stand it. It has to be that way. What about a headline like this: 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'? How good is that? You read that headline, and you immediately close the paper and say, 'Wow, it's gonna be a great day. — Lewis Black

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest. — Michael Johnson

You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell — Leonard Cohen