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The Front Page

«I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.»
«If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.»
«One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?»
«[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.»
«[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.»
«Hatchet murders were the house speciality of the Journal, whose front page was a virtual abattoir of murder most foul.»
«Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.»
«Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.»
«Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.»
«Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.'»

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