Magazines Quotes

• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

  John Jay Chapman

  Focus, Ratios, Newspapers

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Book, Competition, Mind

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

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Samuel Butler

  Trust, Print Media, People

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• A magazine is so much more beautiful than what's online.

  Mike McCue

  Beautiful, Online

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• It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

  Anthony Doerr

  Work Out

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

  Helen Reddy

  Successful, Careers, Married

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• Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

  David Talbot

  Two, Stories, Journalism

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• Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

  Herman Gorter

  Europe, Judging, Might

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

  Kurt Loder

  Rocks, High Standards, Research

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• I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Writing

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• Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Kinky, Thrillers, Exciting

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• I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

  Matt Groening

  Book, Kids, Adults

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• It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

  Taylor Hackford

  Ghouls, Film, Glamorous

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

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• And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

  David Icke

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Demand

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

  Portia de Rossi

  Style, Trying, Way

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

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• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Book, Reality

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• I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

  Davy Jones

  Years, Giving, Fans

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• People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Fashion, Artist, Clothes

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• I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Reading, People, Effort

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• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

  Nora Ephron

  Women, Food, Memorable

  Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

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• She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

  David Gest

  Morning, Thursday, Wednesday

  "Chloe Sevigny's mouse troubles; J. Lo's new fling?; Janet sparks nipple jewelry craze". www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2004.

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• So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Philosophy, Opinion, Roof

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• There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Hair, Becoming

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• Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

  Robert Bresson

  School, Media, People

  "Notes on the Cinematograph".

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