Famous quotes by Journalists

"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

"Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee"

David Frost, Journalist

David Frost

"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

"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

"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested"

Tom Wolfe, 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

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

Molly Ivins, Journalist

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

James Reston, Journalist

"War hath no fury like a non-combatant"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically"

Jane Bryant Quinn, Journalist

"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity"

Naomi Klein, Journalist

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea"

Phyllis Battelle, Journalist

"Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds"

Donald Stewart Cherry, Journalist

"You can't conserve what you haven't got"

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Journalist

"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence"

Dorothy Dix, Journalist

"Housework, if it is done right, can kill you"

John Skow, Journalist

"The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese"

Jeremy Paxman, Journalist

"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

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