Famous quotes by Journalists

"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence!"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security, and too tired for an affair"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other people's money, except when it comes to questions of national survival, when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"Every cloud has its silver lining, but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

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