Famous quotes by Journalists

"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead"

Gene Fowler, Journalist

"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"That which is not just is not law"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion"

James Reston, Journalist

"To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it, the better you like it"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear"

Naomi Klein, Journalist

"Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed, he would have lost"

Mort Sahl, Journalist

"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second is to find out who will tell you"

John Gunther, Journalist

"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

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