Headlines Quotes - Page 10

• I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you. It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction... Would you ever put [America's plus-size sweetheart] in the headline for a male star?

  Melissa McCarthy

  Stars, Powerful, Wind

  "Melissa McCarthy: I cried about not being thinner", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Mother, Daughter, Beach

  5 Copy quote

• How's this for a headline? 'French fries'.

  James French

  Bad Ass, Fries, Ass

  8 Copy quote

• I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially.

  Tony La Russa

  Baseball, Degrees, Said

  7 Copy quote

• Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Wish

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.262, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

  Tony Benn

  Funny, Children, Humor

  8 Copy quote

• Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. “Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.

  Libba Bray

  Voice, Hot, Doe

  24 Copy quote

• The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, One Day, Earth

  Indira Gandhi (1983). “Statements on Foreign Policy, May-December, 1983”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

  John Green

  Lonely, Children, Home

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.86, Penguin UK

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have you finished your column for tomorrow's headline?" It was Vee. She came up beside me, jotting notes on the notepad she carried everywhere. "I'm thinking of writing mine on the injustice of seating charts. I got paired with a girl who said she just finished lice treatment this morning.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Girl, Morning, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Running, America, Rumor

  4 Copy quote

• You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

  Gary Larson

  Men, Sharks, Water

  30 Copy quote

• California's 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline '74-Year-Old Boxer,' I assumed they were making another 'Rocky' movie.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Years, California

  4 Copy quote

• The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.

  Theodor Adorno

  Dream, Long, Waking

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

  Mickey Mantle

  Running, Baseball, Real

  8 Copy quote

• What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

  David Salle

  Eyebrows, Comedian, Actors

  7 Copy quote

• Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.

  Rich Sommer

  Phones, Topics, Easier

  7 Copy quote

• If you fall in love with someone, it doesnt matter who they are. Ive had lots of girlfriends who werent in the public eye. It is hard, all the intrusion: you have a row with someone, and even though youve sorted everything out, you get the are-they-going-to-split headlines for the next ten days.

  Max Beesley

  Falling In Love, Girlfriend, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.

  Eben Pagan

  Communication, Writing, Long

  6 Copy quote

• A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

  Steve Williams

  Tyrants, Years, Want

  4 Copy quote

• Headline writing is an art form.

  Jennifer Lee

  Art, Writing, Form

  4 Copy quote

• A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

  Ayn Rand

  Entity, Clear, Whole

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.191, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Clever, Style, Needs

  c.1910 Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: 'Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.' They did not say: 'Men Face Large Health Care Gap.' Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men's lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.

  Warren Farrell

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Order, Organization, People

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source