I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. — Geraldine Brooks Tags: #Newspaper, #Printing, #Sydney, #GeraldineBrooks, #Australian,...
I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for – a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design,...
For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, ‘Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can’t possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a...
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car...
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. — Henri Matisse Tags: #Soul, #Newspaper, #HenriMatisse, #French, #ArtistMini who’s who: Henri Matisse : French Artist Born: December 31, 1869 Died: November 3,...