Journalist Quotes · Page 21

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

— Jack Benny

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for…

— John Oliver

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business,…

— Megyn Kelly

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

— Greg Gutfeld

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

— A. N. Wilson

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

— Hugh Jackman

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

— Katharine Gun

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and…

— John Lennon

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly…

— Michael Wolff

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and…

— Michael Winterbottom

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to…

— Jaron Lanier

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have…

— Bill Kovach

“The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small…

— Stieg Larsson

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying…

— Stockwell Day

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They…

— Anna Quindlen

In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The…

— Hélder Câmara

After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a…

— Burk Uzzle

[Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to…

— Russ Wilcox

The American elite ... is almost beyond redemption. Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable…

— Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that…

— Stephen L. Carter

I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a…

— Mitchel Resnick

The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I was a journalist's dream case study; a gobby girl with an accent who was good at engineering.

— Steph McGovern

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

— Mark Leibovich

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

— Rush Limbaugh

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

— Rajeev Shukla

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

— Tina Brown

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist…

— Mandy Moore

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look…

— Robert Smith

It's Charles Barkley. He's a personality. I don't count him as a journalist.

— Michelle Beadle

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

— Russell Lynes

Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.

— David Brooks

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

— Bertie Carvel

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is impossible not to hear some of the criticism. However, no newspaper, nor journalist, is going to tell me who I…

— Thiago Silva

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

— Diane Sawyer

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

— Laurence Shames