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

  Charles Kennedy

  Want

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

  Rod Stewart

  True Love, Heart, Law

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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