#news

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it. ↗

— June Lockhart

#any #bone #compiled #current #current events

I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#beckham #call #david #did #exposing

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#believe #interesting #makes #more #newspapers

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#accepted #ago #am #ancient #appeared

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news. ↗

— George Saunders

#bad-news #funny #humor #funny

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. ↗

— Eric Massa

#bonds #buddies #conscious #conscious decision #decision

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen. ↗

— Will McDonough

#boston #dozen #four #globe #i

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#any #flags #i #lapels #news

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#dramatic #important #into #music #news

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

#dollars #drop #fifty #finally #give