Famous quotes by Journalists

"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"Christmas is over and Business is Business"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference"

Mort Sahl, Journalist

"One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green"

John Gunther, Journalist

"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other"

Naomi Klein, Journalist

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain"

Jane Bryant Quinn, Journalist

"The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once"

Jane Bryant Quinn, Journalist

"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"There's the great line: The definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"I grew up in Tom DeLay's district"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him"

Donald Stewart Cherry, Journalist

"For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda"

Phyllis Battelle, Journalist

"I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well, of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"The wealth of South Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of South Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world"

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Journalist

"Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

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