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  • Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success. -- Graydon Carter
  • POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness. -- Jane Fonda
  • Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space? -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news. -- Jann Wenner
  • Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to engage with us or to reject us. -- Stefano Tonchi
  • Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. -- Robin Day
  • I've done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There's always another interview to do. It's quite something, I have to say. -- Roger Federer
  • Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. -- will.i.am
  • The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died. -- Janice Dickinson
  • Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • A career high was when I did a cover for W Magazines July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true. -- Joan Smalls
  • Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. -- Gloria Steinem
  • I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. -- Gloria Steinem
  • In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine. -- Erwin Rommel
  • You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate. -- Andrew Card
  • She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over. -- David Gest
  • It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money. -- Felix Dennis
  • Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. -- Walter Cronkite
  • So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine. -- Jeff Vandermeer
  • Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. -- Robert Bresson
  • We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. -- James Van Allen
  • I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist. -- Julie Bowen
  • Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. -- Dick Dale
  • I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. -- Glenn Frey
  • If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. -- Anna Quindlen
  • Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does -- Edward James Olmos
  • Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. -- Barry Goldwater
  • We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. -- Henry Miller
  • Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. -- Edward Thorndike
  • 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
  • I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that. -- Adele
  • I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that. -- Sam Abell
  • Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine. -- John Fogerty
  • Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers. -- Carol Burnett
  • I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips. -- R. L. Stine
  • I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed. -- Prabal Gurung
  • I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks. -- Jennifer Morrison
  • I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much. -- Kylie Minogue
  • It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. -- David Ogilvy
  • Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever. -- Paul Theroux
  • 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
  • I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up. -- Jennifer Aniston
  • Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. -- Jon Scieszka
  • Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it. -- Willie Aames
  • When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. -- Robert Dallek
  • 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
  • I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list! -- Jenna Ushkowitz
  • The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. -- Gloria Steinem
  • The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. -- Lionel Barber
  • I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company. -- Ashton Kutcher
  • So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here. -- Sally Schneider
  • I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement. -- Drew Barrymore
  • I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. -- Jackson Browne
  • I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation. -- Lupe Fiasco
  • When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
  • I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. -- Trent Reznor
  • I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online. -- Iggy Azalea
  • I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. -- David Bowie
  • I love coming in and changing magazines. -- Anna Wintour
  • Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly. -- James De La Vega
  • The only magazines I read are car magazines. -- Simon Cowell
  • People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women. -- Karl Lagerfeld
  • I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines. -- Kelly Reilly
  • I never buy magazines, I never even buy books. -- Marc Newson
  • It's magazines like HITS that have to label things. -- Nina Gordon
  • Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines. -- Robert Benton
  • I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information. -- Scott Adams
  • Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man. -- Felix Dennis
  • Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. -- Elisabeth Marbury
  • Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines. -- Paula Abdul
  • Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. -- Mary Schmich
  • Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines. -- Wilson Mizner
  • I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines. -- Maud Welzen
  • I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. -- Vivienne Westwood
  • Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. -- Aimee Bender
  • The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink. -- Sarah Schulman
  • I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now. -- Jhonen Vasquez
  • I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines. -- Jhonen Vasquez
  • These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society. -- Scarlett Johansson
  • Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People. -- Meredith Brooks
  • [Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together. -- Jay Michaelson
  • "Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. -- Frederick Crews
  • We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy. -- Marilu Henner
  • Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines. -- Betty Friedan
  • Look at all the magazines: There's always 10 ways to be better at something. -- Brooke Elliott
  • When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines. -- Stephen Sprouse
  • I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books. -- Payne Stewart
  • The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio. -- Ken Auletta
  • Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive. -- Masa Takayama
  • I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. -- Jennifer Aniston
  • Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. -- Paul Rudnick
  • Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines. -- Erin Heatherton
  • It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines. -- Anthony Doerr
  • The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • Healthy body image is not something that youre going to learn from fashion magazines. -- Erin Heatherton
  • I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad. -- Martin Parr
  • I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines. -- Joel Madden
  • The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines. -- Wayne Pacelle
  • I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. -- Alice Sebold
  • I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore. -- Cat Deeley
  • I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets. -- Ben Affleck
  • I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me. -- Joel Stein
  • I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything. -- Kevin Shields
  • Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. -- Cheri K. Erdman
  • Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines. -- Joseph Kennedy
  • Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life. -- Jeffrey Bewkes
  • I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. -- Dave Eggers
  • I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories. -- Lauren Conrad
  • Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines. -- Desiree Rogers
  • Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines. -- Jonathan Brandis
  • Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies. -- M.J. Rose
  • Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines. -- Desiree Rogers
  • It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate. -- Shirley Manson
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