Famous quotes by Journalists

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised"

"One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little"

"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men"

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while"

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"

"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled"

"Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience"

"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam"

"I taught sixth grade for three and a half years"

"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris"

"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important"

"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important"

"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month"

"So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy"

"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things"

"My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job"

"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News"

"My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job"

"The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings"

"Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child"

"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children"

"It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?"

"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it"

"It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break"

"If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking"

"I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity"

"I have an inate curiosity about people"

"I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts"

"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count"