Journalist Quotes: Words of Wisdom from the World of Journalism (Page 2)

"Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States"

Anna Louise Strong, Journalist

"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all"

Bernard Levin, Journalist

"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical"

Jon Carroll, Journalist

"America is practically owned by China"

Tom Winnifrith, Journalist

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

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