Headlines Quotes

• 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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• My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Freedom, Mistake, Failure

  "United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit". openjurist.org. May 6, 2003.

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• If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.

  John Caples

  Certain, Ifs

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• The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Cameras, Culture, Looks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Trying, Use

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• You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.

  Patrick Symmes

  Real, Failure, Science

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• You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

  Harry S. Truman

  Pages, Judgment, Newspapers

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.

  Geert Wilders

  Needs, Matter

  "Merkel Is Afraid". Interview with Walter Mayr and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 9, 2010.

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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 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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• You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

  Barry Manilow

  Morning, Stupid, Next

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

  Matt Lucas

  Night, Complaining, Wake Up

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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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• 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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• 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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• Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

  Cat Cora

  Morning, Children, Three

  "A Recipe for Fighting Child Malnutrition" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Perspective, Meat, Flags

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• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, Unemployment

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• Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

  Walter Winchell

  Gossip, Today, Tomorrow

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• I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

  Lou Gehrig

  Differences, Long, Guy

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• Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Money, Epic

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• The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kindness, Greed, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

  Edward Zwick

  Men, Thinking, America

  "Featured Filmmaker: Edward Zwick" by Stax, www.ign.com. March 4, 2002.

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• News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Important, Buzz, Information

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