Newspeople Quotes & Sayings

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to. — Carrie Fisher

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it. — Cormac McCarthy

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations. — Jane Addams

Turns out I really like bookstores. You know, I meet a lot of people in my line of work. A lot of folks pass through Alice Island, especially in the summer. I've seen movie people on vacation and I've seen music people and newspeople, too. There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewoman. — Gabrielle Zevin

Freelance investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was looking into the Cabazon/Wackenhut projects as part of a larger conspiracy investigation at the time he was found dead in a West Virginia motel room in 1991, allegedly a suicide victim. He had told friends he was convinced that "spies, arms merchants and others were using the reservation as a low-profile site on which to develop weapons for Third World armies, including the Nicaraguan Contras. — Gary Webb

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers. — Molly Ivins

Avoid foods you see advertised on television. — Michael Pollan

There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me. — Dhirubhai Ambani

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring. — Dave Barry