Quotes by Journalists - Page 7

Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.
Jon Franklin
The niftiest turn of phrase the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
Jeff Greenfield
The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
Walt Whitman
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
B.C. Forbes
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated he forgets truths which are too simple.
Dame Rebecca West
Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.
John Boyle O'Reilly
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible.
P.J. O'Rourke
When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department I'll tell him 'Count your blessings you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!'
Richard J. Needham
While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person.
Gabriel García Márquez
The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Dorothy Dix
Whatever else can be said about sex it cannot be called a dignified performance.
Helen Lawrenson
Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2 000 000 000 years asexual reproduction was the rule. You know if you were a creature you just separated into two clones.
Mark Jerome Walters
Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500 000 000 years ago.
Mark Jerome Walters
That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.
Joaquin Miller
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly "I was wrong."
B.C. Forbes
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris
Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.
Joan Lunden
I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.
Georgie Anne Geyer
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
Barbara Gordon
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
Oriana Fallaci
To understand is to forgive even oneself.
Alexander Chase
As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Susan Faludi
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
Sydney J. Harris
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Joan Didion
Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.
Meg Greenfield
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough.
Gail Sheehy
Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
Gail Sheehy
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
B.C. Forbes
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem
Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
Gloria Steinem
The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.
Jane O'Reilly
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
Joan Didion
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
Ellen Goodman
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
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Barbara Walters
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Haley
Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.
Brenda Ueland
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.
Sarah Boseley
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.
Janet Flanner
I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.
Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.
Ernest Hemingway
I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George Higgins
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H.L. Mencken
If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
Calvin Trillin
Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.
Otto Friedrich
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Agnes Meyer
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.
B.C. Forbes