Famous quotes by Journalists

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"

Don Marquis, Journalist

Don Marquis

"Morality is only moral when it is voluntary"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

Lincoln Steffens

"It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise"

David Talbot, Journalist

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

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Politics makes strange bedfellows"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"

Claud Cockburn, Journalist

Claud Cockburn

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"And on election night I'd go down to City Hall in El Paso, Texas, and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

Sam Donaldson

"He has a profound respect for old age, especially when it's bottled"

Gene Fowler, Journalist

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial"

Irvin S. Cobb, Journalist

"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

Bill Vaughan

"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Theodor Herzl

"If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con', what is the opposite of 'progress'?"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt"

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

Bob Woodward

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

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

Franklin P. Jones

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

Franklin P. Jones

"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

Franklin P. Jones

"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all"

Dan Rather, Journalist

Dan Rather

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

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