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"

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

"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"

"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek"

"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"

"We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate"

"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization"

"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary"

"I have been over into the future, and it works"

"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday"

"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely"

"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one"

"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"