News Sheet Quotes & Sayings

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier. — Paul Cellucci

But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. — Salman Rushdie

Do not allow me to forget you — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids! — R. Murray Schafer

What do you think,' she said. Her voice was rapid. 'You want to
marry me, don't you? Don't you think you want to marry me?' Waited for
the wisecrack. As she spoke she changed in some provocative way,
seemed suddenly drenched in eroticism as a diver rising out of a pool
gleams like chrome with a sheet of unbroken water for a fractional
second. — Annie Proulx

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome. — Rebekah Brooks

If an organization is not able to change its model of itself unless and until completely clear-cut evidence accumulates, that organization will tend to learn late, that is, it will revise its model of vulnerabilities only after serious events occur. — David D. Woods

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors. — Tina Brown

Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. "All the News That's Fit to Print," it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture. I myself check every day to make sure that the bright, smug, pompous, idiotic claim is still there. Then I check to make sure that it still irritates me. If I can still exclaim, under my breath, why do they insult me and what do they take me for and what the hell is it supposed to mean unless it's as obviously complacent and conceited and censorious as it seems to be, then at least I know I still have a pulse. You may wish to choose a more rigorous mental workout but I credit this daily infusion of annoyance with extending my lifespan. — Christopher Hitchens

Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring. — Al-Jahiz

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. — Tom Ford

Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price. — Moffat Machingura

His errors and failures have not traveled the same distance as his successes. — Rick Bass

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star. — Ethan Hawke

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to. — Sakyong Mipham

I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags. — Busy Philipps

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. — William Easterly