Famous quotes by Journalists

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

Franklin P. Jones

"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic"

Dan Rather, Journalist

Dan Rather

"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"Next to a circus, there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

Erma Bombeck

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; credible, we must be truthful"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"My favorite animal is steak"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

Fran Lebowitz

"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

Fran Lebowitz

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

Fran Lebowitz

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

Bill Vaughan

"You will never win if you never begin"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

Lincoln Steffens

"I have been over into the future, and it works"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

Lincoln Steffens

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"The chief cause of problems is solutions"

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants' dream of"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better"

Mark Shields, Journalist

Mark Shields

"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top"

James Reston, Journalist

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