Famous quotes by Journalists

"Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck"

Claud Cockburn, Journalist

"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"A finished person is a boring person"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"When you are seventeen, you aren't really serious"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? Three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? Had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

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