| "History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses." Charles Angoff |
| "We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard." Voltaire |
| "Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other." Ivy Compton-Burnett |
| "Never assume the obvious is true." William Safire |
| "Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space." Rebecca West |
| "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." Bernard Baruch |
| "My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers." Ronald Reagan |
| "News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." Lord Northcliffe |
| "To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself." V.S. Naipaul |
| "They used to say man's life was a closed book. So it is but it's an open newspaper." Finlay Peter Dunne |
| "In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information." Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| "The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants." Samuel Johnson |
| "Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last." Maureen Dowd |
| "People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true." Lewis H. Lapham |
| "Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air." Henry Anatole Grunwald |
| "Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." Elbert Hubbard |
| "The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp." Terry Pratchett |
| "Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting." William Randolph Hearst |
| "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." E.L. Doctorow |
| "The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you." C.E.M. Joad |
| "Originality is the art of concealing your source." Franklin P. Jones |
| "The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it." Hans-Georg Gadamer, German Philosopher |
| "A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day." Jim Bishop |
| "More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavour of their own minds in print." Arthur Ochs Sulzberger |
| "Heresy is another word for freedom of thought." Graham Greene |
| "If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water." Ernest Hemingway |
| "I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." Anatole France |
| "My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it." Al Capp |
| "Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish." Richard Rogers |
| "The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are." Henry Ward Beecher |
