Famous quotes by Journalists

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"There are no friends at cards or world politics"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style!"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"Our obligation at the network is: Where do we fit into that, and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people?"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"Don't jump on a man unless he is down"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case"

Finley Peter Dunne, Journalist

"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S"

Eduardo Galeano, Journalist

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"This work is a torture on the rump, but a joy to the heart"

Eduardo Galeano, Journalist

"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

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