Journalist Quotes · Page 18

Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

— Sara Blecher

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

— David Duchovny

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

— Orji Uzor Kalu

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have…

— Neal Boortz

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

— Ron Fournier

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?

— Ann Coulter

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

— Michael Arrington

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's…

— Bill O'Reilly

Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become…

— John Conyers

Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...)…

— Alan Ryan

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow,…

— Naomi Wolf

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and…

— Jonathan Raban

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes;…

— Dan Rather

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or…

— Serj Tankian

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I…

— Damian Barr

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that…

— Nora Ephron

“I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened…

— Masha Hamilton

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much…

— George Bernard Shaw

The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got…

— Lester Holt

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was…

— Frank Oz

If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them…

— Ann Friedman

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that…

— Jorge Ramos

I think our primary function is to create the strongest, deepest, most interesting news report there is in the world.And whether it's…

— Jill Abramson

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

— Robert Draper

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

— Glenn Beck

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

— Stephen Mallinder

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

— Janet Malcolm

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym -…

— Tony Parsons

“No one is too busy to pick up the phone, to make a one-minute phone call. No matter how busy they say…

— Candace Bushnell

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

— Tom Brokaw

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians…

— Mark Twain

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

— Tony Snow

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

— Jeff Pearlman

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

— Jon Rappoport

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

— Patrick O'Brian