Headlines Quotes

• On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Average, People

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• People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

  John Malkovich

  People, Today, Six

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

  David Ogilvy

  Average, People, Body

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• Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Writing, Outstanding

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

  Deborah Tannen

  War, Taken, Fighting

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• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!"

  Larry David

  Men, People, Paper

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". "The Laugh Factory Magazine" Interview, www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

  Ted Rall

  Cartoon, News, Information

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• It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Long, Paper, Journalism

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• Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Numbers, Racism

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• It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

  Bob Schieffer

  Mean, Perspective, Trying

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• When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Words You Speak, News

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• Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Mistake, Made, Humans

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• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Mirrors, Musical

  "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.

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• The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

  Leslie Charteris

  Mean, Eye, Feuds

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• I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

  Cat Stevens

  Spiritual, Reality, Violence

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

  Peter Coyote

  White, House, Pages

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• I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

  Russell Crowe

  Insecure, Giving, Demand

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• A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

  Matt Drudge

  Giving, Attention, Stories

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, Monday, Yankees

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• I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Two

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• 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?

  William Hague

  Law, Guilty, Release

  "Yesterday in parliament" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Headlines twice the size of the events.

  John Galsworthy

  Workout, Events, Size

  John Galsworthy (2008). “End of the Chapter: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?

  Ed McBain

  Real, Media, Ideas

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• I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, News

  "White House Insiders". www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2004.

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