Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

I make pop culture.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

We’re news junkies in my house.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?