Quotes on Press

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

Author: Fred Allen

We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

Author: Emma Anderson

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Author: Majel Barrett

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

Author: Martin Bashir

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Author: William Blatty

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

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

Author: Marlin Fitzwater

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

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

Author: Bill Ford

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

Author: Fred Friendly

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

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

Author: Anthony Holden

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

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

Author: Charles James

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

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

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

Author: Elton John

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

Author: Mary Jones

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Author: Nikita Khrushchev

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

Author: T. Lawrence

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

Author: Vladimir Lenin

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

Author: Sonya Levien

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

Author: G. Liddy

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

Author: Rush Limbaugh

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Alison Moyet

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

Author: Martina Navratilova

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.

Author: William Pitt

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Author: Joseph Pulitzer

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

Author: Donna Rice

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

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

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

Author: E. Schumacher

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

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

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Author: Kenneth Starr

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

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

Author: Helen Thomas

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

Author: Alexis Tocqueville

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

Author: Robert Trout

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

Author: Sela Ward

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

Author: James Woods

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

Author: Steven Wright

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