Hearst Quotes & Sayings

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons. — Patty Hearst

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it. — Patty Hearst

Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me. — Patty Hearst

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand. — William Randolph Hearst

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader. — Patty Hearst

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. — William Randolph Hearst

Melissa Biggs Bradley spent a decade as Travel Editor of 'Town & Country,' and later served as the founding editor of 'Town & Country Travel.' She then launched Indagare Souk, an online marketplace of global treasures. — Amanda Hearst

William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history. — Beth Bailey

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter. — Patty Hearst

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind. — William Randolph Hearst

Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning. — E. Haldeman-Julius

Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites. — Amanda Hearst

Miss Rogers waved a hand. "But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all!"
"Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels?"
"These are civilized rebels, young man. They have movie deals!"
"That's no guarantee of sanity! — Scott Westerfeld

I'm a really big advocate of ethical fashion. I actually have a travelling boutique called Maison de Mode, which is all about ethical fashion. I also like Maiyet from Paris. They're very Celine-esque in their silhouettes. I love their back story, too: they work with orphans in Colombia and India. — Amanda Hearst

I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence. — Patty Hearst

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children. — William Randolph Hearst

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle. — George Hearst

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. — William Randolph Hearst

We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right. — William Randolph Hearst

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice. — Amanda Hearst

I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time. — Amanda Hearst

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark
well-intentioned, but ineffective. — William Randolph Hearst

It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is. — Allen Ginsberg

In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana. — Amanda Hearst

Hey, get a nice shot of the brand-new Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley! — Triple H

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow. — Patty Hearst

For a time, the press lord William Randolph Hearst did everything in his vast powers to keep the film "Citizen Kane" from finding an audience. He intimidated theater owners, refused to let ads run in his newspapers, and even pressured studio sycophants to destroy the negative. At first, the titan of San Simeon had his way: the film faded from view after a splashy initial release. But over the years, "Citizen Kane" came to be recognized for the masterpiece it is, and now regularly tops lists as the greatest film ever made. — Anonymous

I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming. — Patty Hearst

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them. — George Hearst

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever. — Cary Ann Hearst

Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked in and fall in love. Or if not exactly love, you fall into something you can't see out of. 'I can't shoot a machine gun' becomes 'Hey, this hardly has any kick-back! — Augusten Burroughs

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. — William Randolph Hearst

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. — William Randolph Hearst

If you make a product good enough ... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway. — William Randolph Hearst

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea. — William Randolph Hearst

I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness. — Patty Hearst

Hearst's papers and magazines" were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred "the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I, for one, would keep the promise I had made. — Dorothy Hearst

I was not born to crush my own kind. — George Hearst

My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs. — Brigid Berlin

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too. — Patty Hearst

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. — Patty Hearst

I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won. — Patty Hearst

People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father. — Patty Hearst

You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me. — George Hearst

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. — Amanda Hearst

The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently. — Patty Hearst

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then. — Patty Hearst

I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.] — Cary Ann Hearst

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads. — William Randolph Hearst

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened. — Patty Hearst

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it. — Patty Hearst

I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap. — Amanda Hearst

I do remember that I was very relieved that I did not have to go into a bank with them. I had, as you recall, I had already been brought into a bank before and it was better to be sitting outside. — Patty Hearst

There's no denying that Christy Turlington looks good in everything, but it's especially great when she uses her supermodel looks and charitable spirit to support the organization she founded, Every Mother Counts. — Amanda Hearst

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. — Patty Hearst

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil. — William Randolph Hearst

You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone. — Patty Hearst

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are. — William Randolph Hearst

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank? — Patty Hearst

Most criminals are not born; they are made ... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen. — William Randolph Hearst

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them. — William Randolph Hearst

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution. — William Randolph Hearst

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. — Patty Hearst

Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug. — William Randolph Hearst

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here. — Patty Hearst

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. — Amanda Hearst

You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle. — William Randolph Hearst

In the end, notwithstanding a surreal detour in the 1970s, Patricia led the life she for which she was destined back in Hillsborough. The story of Patricia Hearst, as extraordinary as it once was, had a familiar, even predictable ending. She did not turn into a revolutionary. She turned into her mother. — Jeffrey Toobin

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court. — Patty Hearst

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally. — Amanda Hearst

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake. — Patty Hearst

In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax ... the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed $5 dollars - per grave, per year - for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as: Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes ... nothing is sacred. — Rush Limbaugh

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want. — Richard Schickel

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told. — Patty Hearst

I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion. — William Randolph Hearst

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot. — Patty Hearst

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation. — William Randolph Hearst

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. — William Randolph Hearst

My closet is a sea of black pants, skirts, tops, and bags, so it's great to come across a brand that makes me want to break out of my fashion rut! The Sequence Collection is an accessories line that is all about color, from funky woven bracelets to brightly-patterned bags. — Amanda Hearst

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. — William Randolph Hearst

You can crush a man with journalism. — William Randolph Hearst

He appreciated it, to a point. He also had no intention of having a second marriage like his first, a marriage in which the wife taught the husband, and didn't care who knew it; in fact, took pains to let others see how much she had taught him, how much more she knew about art and politics and all the rest. That had been Dorothy Hearst Paley's fatal flaw, one she recognized too late. Babe — Melanie Benjamin

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is. — Amanda Hearst

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened. — Patty Hearst

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland. — Amanda Hearst

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial. — Patty Hearst

Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years. — Patty Hearst

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass. — William Randolph Hearst

There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time. — Patty Hearst

One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons ... and do some amazing shopping! — Amanda Hearst

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing. — Amanda Hearst

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster. — William Randolph Hearst

I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States. — Amanda Hearst

True history," said Hearst, with a smile that was, for once, almost charming, "is the final fiction. I thought even you knew that. — Gore Vidal

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. — Patty Hearst

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others. — William Randolph Hearst

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities. — Jill Lepore

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die. — Patty Hearst

Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out. — James Hearst