You know my temperature's risin', The juke box's blowin'a fuse, My heart's beatin'rhythm, My soul keeps a singin'the bluesö Roll over Beethoven, Tell Tchaikovsky the news.

-Berry, Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson)
  'Roll over Beethoven'.

La eternidad rotativa puede parecer atroz al espectador; es satisfactoria para sus individuos. Libres de malas noticias y de enfermedades, viven siempre como si fuera la primera vez, sin recordar las anteriores. A circular eternity may seem atrocious to the spectator, but it is satisfactory to individuals inside. Free from bad news and disease, theyalways live as if it were the first time, and do not remember previous times.

-Bioy Casares, Adolfo
  La invencio¤  n de Morel ( The Invention of Morel,1964).

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

-Bogart,John B
Quoted in F M O'Brien The Story of the Sun (1918), ch.10. The phrase is often attributed to Charles  A Dana.

The best way to get news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.

-Bush, GeorgeW(alker)
  On Fox News, 22 Sep.

For there isgood news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'The Rolling English Road'.

No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken:TELLTHE PEOPLE!

-Christiansen, Arthur
Headlines all my Life, ch.18.

Half thetime when I seethe evening news,I wouldn't be for me, either.

-Clinton, Bill (William)
  Comment, 2  Jun.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired thesunwithtalking and sent himdownthesky.

-Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson
  Ionica, Poems,'Heraclitus', his translationof an epigram by Callimachus.

A master passion is the love of news.

-Crabbe, George
  The Newspaper, l.279.

Getthenews,get allthenews,andnothing butthenews.

-Dana, Charles Anderson
  The Art of Newspaper Making,'The Modern  American Newspaper'.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

-Fowles,John Robert
  The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

It's like saying that the patient died but the good news is that he's eating less.

-Jacobs, Andrew,Jr
  Of the Reagan administration's claim to have reduced inflation. In the Washington Post, 6  Jun.

But years ago he had decided never to be afraid of the deafeningly obvious, it is always news to somebody.

-Kavanagh, P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory)
  A Song and Dance, ch.6.

Supposing the Press in order, the people in their right wits, and news or no news to be the question, a Public Mercury should not have my Vote, because I think it makes the Multitude too familiar with the actions and counsels of their superiors, too pragmatical and censorious, and gives them not onlyan itch but a kind of colourable right to be meddling with the government.

-L'Estrange, Sir Roger
  The Intelligencer, 31  Aug.

The news of the dayas it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper isinall literalnessthebibleofdemocracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

-Lippmann,Walter
  Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.

-Lippmann,Walter
  Public Opinion, ch.23.

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.

-Lippmann,Walter
  Public Opinion, ch.23.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.

-Lippmann,Walter
  Public Opinion, ch.23.

They died When time was open-eyed, Wooden and childish; only bones abide There, in the nowhere, where their boats were tossed Sky-high, where mariners had fabled news of IS, the whited monster.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', pt.3.

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.1538.