Journalist Quotes · Page 15

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a…

— Michael Connelly

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

— Sandra Oh

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.

— Shane Smith

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

— Rebecca Mead

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

— Craig Ferguson

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it…

— Honore de Balzac

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private…

— Caitlin Thomas

I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of…

— Tom Stoppard

Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great…

— Arianna Huffington

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men…

— Cicely Tyson

Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on…

— Colin Jost

When my grandfather was a journalist for the Detroit Tigers, he dressed the part. I mention it always to our local media:…

— Erik Spoelstra

France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit…

— Dave Barry

“Hi," (cough), "my name is Jasmin Field. I'm a journalist. So don't piss me off. Ha ha. And um - well, I…

— Melissa Nathan

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater…

— Wilfred Burchett

Your regional newspaper, and I like to use this example, in your local museum buys a Picasso, that's news especially if they've…

— Terry Teachout

Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that…

— Lydia Lunch

Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing…

— Jeffrey Zaslow

A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who…

— Michael Hastings

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of…

— William T. Vollmann

Is any job safe? I was hoping to say 'journalist,' but researchers are already developing algorithms that can gather facts and write…

— Daniel Lyons

Ijust had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and…

— Will Ferrell

A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.…

— Chris Hedges

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

— Alexander Cockburn

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

— Robert Fisk

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.”

— Ann Coulter

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

— Rajeev Shukla

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything…

— Lydia Polgreen

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in…

— Sheri Fink

First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)

— Ivan Slavkov

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

— Sade Adu

“now I would almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, who’s the journalist who seems to want to help him get to Ecuador.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not…

— Jerome K. Jerome

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

— Susanna Reid

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

— David Brooks

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to…

— Voltaire