300 Quotes on Press

• If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

  Author: Lee Yew

• Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

  Author: Steven Wright

• Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

  Author: James Woods

• Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

  Author: Thomas Wolfe

• The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

  Author: Pete Wilson

• I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

  Author: Nathaniel Willis

• Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

  Author: Theodore White

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  Author: Patrick White

• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  Author: Ida Wells

• Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

  Author: William Weld

• We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

  Author: Shawn Wayans

• I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

  Author: Emma Watson

• Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

  Author: Sela Ward

• Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

  Author: Rob Walton

• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press.

  Author: Henry Villard

• Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

  Author: Holly Valance

• Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  Author: Ike Turner

• If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

  Author: Ed Turner

• Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

  Author: Margaret Truman

• Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

  Author: Robert Trout

• The press seems to love pitting women against each other.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

  Author: Denis Thatcher

• In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

  Author: Audrey Tautou

• Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

  Author: Donna Summer

• I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

  Author: Howard Stringer

• Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

  Author: Ronald Steel

• In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  Author: Larry Speakes

• It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.

  Author: Gerald Solomon

• I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream "secular" press has been very, very nice.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.

  Author: Ashlee Simpson

• People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.

  Author: Howard Simons

• I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

  Author: Clare Short

• The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting President. And in a good way - not the way some of his predecessors were. He's not flabberghastly. He's not the student who wears a button that says, 'Smartest kid in class,' but clearly he is, at least when surrounded by the White House press corps.

  Author: Tom Shale

• When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

  Author: John Sexton

• I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

  Author: Eric Sevareid

• A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.

  Author: George Seldes

• I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

  Author: William Scranton

• But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

  Author: William Scranton

• Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

  Author: William Scranton

• The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  Author: E. Schumacher

• The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.

  Author: Rose Schneiderman

• The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  Author: George Santayana

• The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• With the press there is no "off the record."

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

  Author: Cesar Romero

• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

  Author: Jim Rogers

• I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.

  Author: Charles Richter

• It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

  Author: Mary Richards

• I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

  Author: Donna Rice

• I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

  Author: James Reston

• If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

  Author: Henry Reed

• I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

  Author: Michael Reagan

• I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

  Author: Dixie Ray

• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

  Author: Joseph Pulitzer

• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

  Author: Joseph Pulitzer

• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

  Author: Joseph Pulitzer

• The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

  Author: William Pitt

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  Author: Harold Pinter

• The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise.

  Author: Ben Pimlott

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

  Author: Elizabeth Phelps

• As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

  Author: Mike Pence

• I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

  Author: Jason Patric

• I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

  Author: Brian Palma

• I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.

  Author: Brian Palma

• The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

  Author: Chuck Palahniuk

• Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

  Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  Author: Ed O'Brien

• You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• The press is the enemy.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

  Author: John Negroponte

• Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

  Author: Pola Negri

• Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

  Author: Martina Navratilova

• For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  Author: Frank Murphy

• Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

  Author: Roger Mudd

• The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

  Author: Roger Mudd

• The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

  Author: Roger Moore

• A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.

  Author: Mario Monti

• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

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

  Author: Isaac Mizrahi

• I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

  Author: John Metcalf

• I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  Author: Freddie Mercury

• We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

  Author: Freddie Mercury

• Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

  Author: David McNally

• The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.

  Author: Mike McCready

• I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

  Author: Mike McCready

• Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

  Author: John Masefield

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  Author: Patrick Marber

• If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

  Author: Marla Maples

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

  Author: Tobey Maguire

• I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  Author: Harold MacMillan

• One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

  Author: Rich Lowry

• I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

  Author: Rob Lowe

• No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back."

  Author: Sophia Loren

• 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.

  Author: June Lockhart

• It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

  Author: Mark Lloyd

• The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

  Author: A. Liebling

• The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

  Author: A. Liebling

• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  Author: A. Liebling

• The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

  Author: G. Liddy

• The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.

  Author: Daniel Libeskind

• People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

  Author: Michael Lewis

• Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

  Author: Monica Lewinsky

• Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

  Author: Sonya Levien

• I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

  Author: Sean Lennon

• The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  Author: Barbara Lee

• The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

  Author: T. Lawrence

• You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.

  Author: Andy Lau

• The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

  Author: James Larkin

• Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

  Author: Christian Lange

• They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

  Author: Serge Lang

• There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.

  Author: Nathan Lane

• When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

  Author: Diane Lane

• The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

  Author: Charles Kuralt

• I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

  Author: Chantal Kreviazuk

• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  Author: Karl Kraus

• Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

  Author: Bobby Knight

• I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• The press is our chief ideological weapon.

  Author: Nikita Khrushchev

• The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

  Author: Grace Kelly

• Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

  Author: Harvey Keitel

• The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

  Author: Irving Kaufman

• I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

  Author: Roger Kahn

• The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

  Author: Junius

• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  Author: Carl Jung

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

  Author: Mary Jones

• The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

  Author: Kelly Jones

• Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

  Author: Holly Johnson

• I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

  Author: Elton John

• So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

  Author: Joan Jett

• No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

  Author: Louise Jameson

• We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

  Author: Louise Jameson

• Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

  Author: Charles James

• Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

  Author: Hugh Jacobsen

• The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

  Author: Bruce Jackson

• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

  Author: Laura Ingraham

• The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

  Author: Michael Hutchence

• So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

  Author: Charlie Hunnam

• I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

  Author: Joel Hodgson

• I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

  Author: Damon Hill

• To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

  Author: Claud-Adrian Helvetius

• And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

  Author: Patricia Heaton

• I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

  Author: Rutherford Hayes

• I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

  Author: Harry Hay

• When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

  Author: Scott Hamilton

• Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

  Author: David Halberstam

• Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

  Author: William Hague

• I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

  Author: Gene Hackman

• Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

  Author: Thomas Griffith

• If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

  Author: Meg Greenfield

• We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

  Author: Lou Gramm

• There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

  Author: Katherine Graham

• The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

  Author: Katherine Graham

• I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

  Author: Katherine Graham

• Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

  Author: Joseph Goebbels

• The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.

  Author: Arthur Godfrey

• You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

  Author: Newt Gingrich

• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  Author: Pat Garrett

• All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.

  Author: Jeff Gannon

• TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

  Author: Fred Friendly

• When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  Author: Ace Frehley

• Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

  Author: Felix Frankfurter

• No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

  Author: Anatole France

• God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

  Author: Harry Fosdick

• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  Author: E. Forster

• I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

  Author: Milos Forman

• I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

  Author: Bill Ford

• Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

  Author: Carlisle Floyd

• I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

  Author: Grandmaster Flash

• The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

  Author: Marlin Fitzwater

• Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

  Author: Geoffrey Fisher

• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Author: Ernst Fischer

• It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

  Author: Shawn Fanning

• I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

  Author: Nick Faldo

• Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

  Author: Siobhan Fahey

• Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

  Author: Enya

• The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

  Author: Jacques Ellul

• I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

  Author: Andrew Eldritch

• The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

  Author: Roger Ebert

• But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

  Author: Gregg Easterbrook

• What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

  Author: Esther Dyson

• At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

  Author: Hilary Duff

• The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

  Author: Matt Drudge

• Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

  Author: Maureen Dowd

• The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

  Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

• The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

  Author: Placido Domingo

• When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

  Author: Christopher Dodd

• I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

  Author: Sam Dash

• I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

  Author: Clifton Daniel

• There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

  Author: Claire Danes

• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

  Author: Kieran Culkin

• I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

  Author: Sheryl Crow

• However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

  Author: Sheryl Crow

• The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

  Author: Catherine Crier

• The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them.

  Author: Catherine Crier

• I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

  Author: Simon Cowell

• It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  Author: James Cooper

• The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

  Author: Gerry Cooney

• I have often said that there is no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented by the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.

  Author: John Coolidge

• Thirteen years after the end of the Soviet Union, the American press establishment seemed eager to turn Ukraine's protested presidential election on November 21 into a new cold war with Russia.

  Author: Stephen Cohen

• The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

  Author: William Cobbett

• I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

  Author: Thomas Church

• The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

  Author: Frank Church

• The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

  Author: Chris Chocola

• The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

  Author: Melanie Chisholm

• Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

  Author: Chevy Chase

• The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

  Author: Raymond Chandler

• The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

  Author: Thomas Cech

• I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

  Author: Jimmy Carter

• In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

  Author: John Carre

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

  Author: Albert Camus

• The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical.

  Author: Mark Campbell

• I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

  Author: Anne Campbell

• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Author: Samuel Butler

• Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

  Author: Sophia Bush

• I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.

  Author: Lauren Bush

• Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

  Author: Luis Bunuel

• 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.

  Author: Warren Buffett

• I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people.

  Author: Larry Brown

• Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

  Author: David Brinkley

• The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

  Author: Ben Bradlee

• I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

  Author: Ralph Boston

• Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

  Author: Brian Boitano

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