Magazines Quotes - Page 6

• People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Fashion, Artist, Clothes

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• It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

  Anthony Doerr

  Work Out

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

  Kurt Loder

  Rocks, High Standards, Research

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• And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

  David Icke

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Demand

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

  Davy Jones

  Years, Giving, Fans

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• I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Reading, People, Effort

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• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

  Nora Ephron

  Women, Food, Memorable

  Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

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• She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

  David Gest

  Morning, Thursday, Wednesday

  "Chloe Sevigny's mouse troubles; J. Lo's new fling?; Janet sparks nipple jewelry craze". www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2004.

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• Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

  David Talbot

  Two, Stories, Journalism

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• Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

  John Updike

  Encouragement, Government, Opera

  1985 In the New York Review of Books, 18 Jul.

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• I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Song, Insecure, Numbers

  "I want to retain what I have, recapture what I've lost". Interview with Komal Nahta, in.rediff.com. January 13, 2000.

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• I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me,
  all at once.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Cereal, Inspire

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• Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Support, World, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the
  toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your
  eye by the checkout: corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Shine On, Average

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.31, Penguin

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• I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs!
  Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already f-king did them all, alright? There's none left! We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot
  and the f-kin' kettle.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Kings, Reading

  "No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.

  Cody Wilson

  Gun, Government, People

  "Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel". www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2015.

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• I've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obama. Those were benchmarks for the magazine, and certainly covers that I've been very, very proud of.

  Anna Wintour

  Lucky, Proud, Firsts

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• I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

  Ben Affleck

  Tickets, Worst, Sells

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

  Matt Damon

  Giving, Want, Life Is

  "Actor-screenwriter-producer Matt Damon, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 11, 2012.

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• The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

  Kim Gordon

  Fall, Mean, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mom actually didn't let me read any women's magazines growing up. She also didn't let me see Pretty Woman. She thought that I was going to want to be a hooker. So, instead, I just got cast in Scary Movie.

  Anna Faris

  Mom, Growing Up, Pretty Woman

  Source: collider.com

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• Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.

  Kode9

  Events, Labels, Becoming

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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