Quotes by Journalists - Page 11

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and if you know anything about their careers you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
B.C. Forbes
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B.C. Forbes
News is the first rough draft of history.
Benjamin Bradlee
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Fred Friendley
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther
What you see is news what you know is background what you feel is opinion.
Lester Markel
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A.J. Liebling
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
Wilbur F. Storey
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Hannen Swaffer
If a man bites a dog that is news.
John Bogart
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.
Louis Kossuth
Whether one is twenty forty or sixty whether one has succeeded failed or just muddled along whether yesterday was full of sun or storm or one of those dull days with no weather at all life begins each morning I
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms she speaks A various language.
William Cullen Bryant
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H.L. Mencken
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon between spirit and matter.
Heinrich Heine
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Gail Sheehy
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
Barbara Walters
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.
Gail Sheehy
Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests which change but what you are and what you love which will and should not change.
Georgie Anne Geyer
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Haley
Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Naomi Wolf
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here no prettily drawn list of good intentions.
Joan Didion
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.
H.L. Mencken
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.
William Lloyd Garrison
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Ambrose Bierce
God will pardon me. It's his business.
Heinrich Heine
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. Mencken
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
H.L. Mencken
If you can't be kind at least be vague.
David Powers
To all things clergic I am allergic.
Alexander Woollcott
Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.
Ambrose Bierce
My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.
Christopher Morley
Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.
H.L. Mencken
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Heinrich Heine
Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
The Globe and Mail
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.
Finley Peter Dunne
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.
B.C. Forbes
Motivation triggers luck.
Mike Wallace
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bridget O'Donnell
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell
The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)
Finley Peter Dunne
The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.
Gabriel García Márquez
[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.
Barbara Walters
Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
Maggie Scarf
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
Albert Camus
We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
Brooks Atkinson