Journalist Quotes · Page 24

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

— Rei Kawakubo

“He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about…

— Gillian Flynn

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

— Anderson Cooper

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the…

— Glenn Beck

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

— Annie Leibovitz

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

— Asne Seierstad

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

— Karl Kraus

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,…

— Sara Sheridan

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is…

— Robert Redford

Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice…

— Emily Raboteau

One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America --…

— Anonymous

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your…

— William Butler Yeats

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying…

— Barry Lopez

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training,…

— Helen Thomas

It would be nice if you as journalists - there are some books that explain the painting [ of Guadalupe] what it…

— Pope Francis

As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on…

— Maria Teresa Horta

The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers…

— Bill Kovach

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels…

— Anna Diop

As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane…

— H. G. Wells

And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers.…

— George Seldes

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit…

— John Pilger

Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are…

— Tariq Ali

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their…

— David Sedaris

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

— Marisha Pessl

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

— Sam Harris

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

— Trish Regan

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

— Chris Hedges

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in…

— Colson Whitehead

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

— Frank Gehry

I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have…

— Anonymous

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

— Joe Klein

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

— Steven Weinberg

If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels.

— Cord Jefferson

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

— Zachary Cole Smith

I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing…

— Curtis Hanson

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

— Bill Moyers