Presses Quotes - Page 31

• I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Winning, Hands

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• The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

  Jim Norton

  Interesting, Information, Restraint

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• I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

  Bijou Phillips

  Writing, Decision, Gone

  Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.

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• Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

  Nathaniel Parker

  Work, May, Graves

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• It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.

  W. C. Fields

  Agents

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• I have sleepless nights before press days.

  Amanda Burton

  Night, Sleepless Nights

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• I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

  George W. Bush

  Trying, Answers, Pressure

  Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

  Don King

  Kings, Men, Years

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• Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

  William Weld

  Blessing, Boredom, Desperate

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• Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

  Ben Okri

  Grief, Miracle, Suffering

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• I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're going to bring hair and makeup, it'll take about five hours.' And I said, 'Well, if it was Ian McEwan, would it take about five hours? Would there be hair and makeup? Cause if that's not the case, then don't bring the hair and makeup.' So, it's fascinating that they just assume: it's a young woman, she must want to be photographed for five hours. She must have nothing better to do than delight in trying on all your shoes. But it's not the case.

  Zadie Smith

  Makeup, Phones, Hair

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• The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Gun, Strong Arms

  "The writings of Thomas Jefferson".

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• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Long Ago, Brave

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• A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

  George W. S. Trow

  Pain, Flirting, Giving

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• You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

  Matt Groening

  Boys, Buttons, Nuclear Reactors

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• And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Independent, Men, Looks

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

  Edward Bellamy

  Summer, Eye, Dark

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.187, Applewood Books

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• I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Winning, Years

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• Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

  Luis Bunuel

  Years, Horror, Newspapers

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.228, Random House

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• Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

  David Brock

  Past, Media, Organization

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• These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

  Alain Badiou

  Ignorance, Media, Television

  Alain Badiou (2009). “The meaning of Sarkozy”, Verso Books

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• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

  Brian De Palma

  Interesting, France, Brilliant

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

  Brian De Palma

  Mean, Talking, Mind

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• The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

  Alan Furst

  Wise, Bankers, Paper

  Alan Furst (2008). “Night Soldiers: A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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• You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

  Lord Buckley

  Inspirational, Mind, Watches

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