Quotes by Journalists - Page 6

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost
Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic facts and reason it emphasizes personality rather than issues.
Hedrick Smith
Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott
We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
Gloria Steinem
Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.
Ambrose Bierce
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna or it can smooth the edges take away the insecurities let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippman
Being frustrated is disagreeable but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
Irving Kristol
Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Ambrose Bierce
Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Walt Whitman
To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
Oriana Fallaci
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom you do everything to gain some right and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
Oriana Fallaci
Despite the success cult men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.
Max Lerner
For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
B.C. Forbes
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... 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
Once I decide to do something I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock you jump over it walk around it crawl under it.
Kitty Kelley
I am not afraid of the pen or the scaffold or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.
Mother Jones
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Gloria Steinem
Since when do grown men and women who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership " require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
Meg Greenfield
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization a mystery of the individual soul.
Barbara Ehrenreich
It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.
Diane Sawyer
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
B.C. Forbes
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
B.C. Forbes
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Success has made failures of many men.
Cindy Adams
Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.
Damon Runyon
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Alexander Chase
Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell
Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
Ambrose Bierce
I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn the only way I feel challenged.
Connie Chung
If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.
Margaret Bourke-White
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal.
George Will
Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.
Jim Bishop
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.
Damon Runyon
Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.
Dick Beddoes
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
International sport is war without shooting.
George Orwell
Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.
John McPhee
It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
Robert Lynd
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H.L. Mencken
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George F. Will
I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Walt Whitman
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors.
Herbert Agar
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.
Arthur Chapman
Over my slumber your loving watch keep - Rock me to sleep mother rock me to sleep.
Elizabeth Akers Allen
The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.
Henry George
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell involving both parties in atrocious criminality and should be immediately annulled.
William Lloyd Garrison