Quotes by Journalists - Page 14

Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"
Joaquin Miller
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
Ernest Hemingway
Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.
Robert J. Donovan
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B.C. Forbes
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
Anne Shannon Monroe
When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
Judith Krantz
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
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
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
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
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
Gail Sheehy
Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brenda Ueland
To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
Everyone expects to go further than his father went everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
William Allen White
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living a support in misfortune an education or future security.
Sylvia Porter
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
They never die who have the future in them.
Meridel Le Sueur
Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
David Halberstam
The bravest battle that ever was fought Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not It was fought by the mothers of men.
Joaquin Miller
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! ... Each morning is the open door to a new world-new vistas new aims new tryings.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.
Theodore H. White
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.
H.L. Mencken
The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley
Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
Ambrose Bierce
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads but no brains.
Antoine de Rivarol
Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan
Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.
Heywood Broun
To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.
Julius Fucik
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future adjusting to their new and complicated role.
Anna Ford
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Linda Ellerbee
I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.
Linda Ellerbee
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.
H.L. Mencken
The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
H.L. Mencken