Most Famous Article Quotes

An article typically refers to a written piece of content published in newspapers, magazines, journals, or online platforms. Articles can cover a wide range of topics, including news, features, opinion pieces, analyses, reviews, and instructional guides. They often provide information, insight, or entertainment to readers and are structured with a headline, byline, body text, and sometimes accompanying visuals.

Article Quotes

1. “Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray

2. “If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.”
— Anne Frank

3. “Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.”
— H. L. Mencken

4. “I don’t care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don’t know how to read, but they can’t help seeing them damned pictures.”
— Boss Tweed

5. “As both a consumer and producer of newspaper articles, I have no beef with pay walls. But before signing up, I read the fine print.”
— Richard Thaler

6. “As an entrepreneur, I’ve come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I’ve been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you’re forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind.”
— John Rampton

7. “How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”
— Michel de Montaigne

8. “Magazine articles are the new books.”
— Tina Brown

9. “My books are not really books; they’re endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.”
— Mary Roach

10. “It’s mainly about working hard and proving to people you’re serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they’re the finished articles, the bee’s knees, and it’s not true.”
— Daniel Radcliffe

11. “Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I’m a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult – it’s the beast that must be fed. There’s this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.”
— Julia Roberts

12. “I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.”
— Al Gore

13. “I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren’t listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.”
— Albert Ellis

14. “At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.”
— Dolley Madison

15. “Every day, I absorb countless data bits through emails, phone calls, and articles; process the data; and transmit back new bits through more emails, phone calls, and articles. I don’t really know where I fit into the great scheme of things and how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers.”
— Yuval Noah Harari

16. “I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.”
— Judith Krantz

17. “In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates – ‘Pirates in Petticoats.’ After that, I was a book writer for good.”
— Jane Yolen

18. “I like getting ‘Times’ articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.”
— Hannibal Buress

19. “I’ve written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.”
— Alan Dershowitz

20. “Wells Fargo’s internal review only covers unauthorized accounts dating back to 2011. News reports and court documents suggest these problems might have existed long before then. The 2013 ‘Los Angeles Times’ articles led to the L.A. city attorney’s office investigation into Wells Fargo’s sales practices.”
— Richard Shelby

21. “Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.”
— John Ruskin

22. “I’ve been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.”
— Alanis Morissette

23. “Work by Maria Blasco, Calvin Harley, Michael Fossel, Woodring Wright and Shay and Ronald Depinho in particular are of interest but there are literally thousands of articles relating to telomerase, telomeres and the biology behind it.”
— Liz Parrish

24. “I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the ‘Aspen Times.’ I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.”
— Darin Strauss

25. “So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.”
— Neil Gaiman

26. “Before I leave for the office in the morning, I read the ‘Financial Times’ and the ‘Economist.’ The key articles I need to understand are there, after which I focus on prep for the day.”
— Rajeev Suri

27. “I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.”
— John McAfee

28. “Actually the copies of characters is something I don’t particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there’s only one.”
— Jim Henson

29. “Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won’t know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.”
— Rebecca Pidgeon

30. “I don’t like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don’t like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that’s almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.”
— Issa Rae

31. “There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that would be even more valuable because we women want to sit down with men and tell them – this is how we feel, this is what we go through.”
— Rupi Kaur

32. “Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte

33. “No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow’s flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.”
— B. R. Ambedkar

34. “At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.”
— George Halas

35. “I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.”
— Barbra Streisand

36. “Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.”
— Marquis de Lafayette

37. “Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that.”
— Diana Ross

38. “The ‘Fake News Alert’ Chrome extension, created by ‘New York Magazine’ journalist Brian Feldman, identifies hoax news articles. However, cutting out fake news source entirely from operating is easier said than done, since anyone with internet access can create fake news.”
— Fabrizio Moreira

39. “I’m clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I’ll be writing books. I’m still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.”
— Alanis Morissette

40. “Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author’s own problems with finishing the piece.”
— James Surowiecki

41. “The cool thing about Snapchat is you can get a lot of news on there now. There’s CNN, ESPN, and I find myself reading the most random articles. I don’t know how it actually benefits me, but it’s interesting. I like to stay up on current events, so I have to give kudos to Snapchat: they’ve done a good job of that. But I’m on there way too much.”
— Klay Thompson

42. “For me, it’s really day to day. I don’t really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I’m wearing. Being on the road all the time, it’s various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.”
— Victoria Legrand

43. “Hard paywalls will never work because, just like at a newsstand, the reader likes to browse the cover and a few articles before choosing to buy. Even if the material is truly unique, a consumer likes to try a little before buying.”
— Andrew Ross Sorkin

44. “I think the fact that we don’t really… that the world really doesn’t acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don’t really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that… that it’s just kind of glossed over as this thing.”
— Uzodinma Iweala

45. “Group chats have proven popular breeding grounds for fake news, with dubious articles from even more dubious sources being shared and reshared at the touch of a smartphone.”
— Kemi Badenoch

46. “For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.”
— William Banting

47. “The idea of using actual clippings came about as a way of characterizing Gold. Gold uses clippings because he hates doing research and is not even really interested in the books and articles he writes.”
— Joseph Heller

48. “Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.”
— Jay Parini

49. “Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.”
— Antonio Damasio

50. “Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job is to go to all the MLB stadiums and to talk to and collect articles from all the Venezuelan players in the big leagues and those Americans that played in Venezuela.”
— Juan Pablo Galavis

51. “Growth theory did not begin with my articles of 1956 and 1957, and it certainly did not end there. Maybe it began with ‘The Wealth of Nations’; and probably even Adam Smith had predecessors.”
— Robert Solow

52. “I wasn’t political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.”
— Michael Heizer

53. “I teach a freshman seminar every year, and we delve very, very deeply into their mindsets. They read scientific articles, but we also focus on what their mindset is, and they learn to recognize when they are in more of a fixed mindset, because we’re all a mixture.”
— Carol S. Dweck

54. “When someone goes to watch my film in the theatre, they won’t remember the last four articles they read about me. Instead, they will think about the last film I did.”
— Anushka Sharma

55. “No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.”
— Theo Van Gogh

56. “What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I’m about as a person and as a writer.”
— Alanis Morissette

57. “Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can’t worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.”
— Kimberly Willis Holt

58. “A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”
— Laurence Sterne

59. “There have been no resignations, no indictments, no investigations, no congressional oversight, no outcry from the mainstream media, and no apologies – so I’m stepping up to hold Biden and Harris accountable by filing articles of impeachment for giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies and colluding with the Taliban.”
— Lauren Boebert

60. “I think I need pictures with my articles.”
— Dominick Dunne