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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money.

  David Ogilvy

  Copywriting, Percent, Products

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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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• The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that's what counts.

  Ernest A. Fitzgerald

  Success, Real, Victory

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• "Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Age, Doe, Stones

  "WAR ON TERROR: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS on why peace-lovers must welcome this war". Christopher Hitchens, The Mirror, November 15, 2001.

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• I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

  Charles Kennedy

  Want

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• I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

  David Guetta

  Live Concerts, Play, People

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

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• God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

  Billy Graham

  Love You, Thrones, His Love

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• Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

  Bill Gates

  News, Way, Improvement

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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