Journalist Quotes · Page 4

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

— Brigitte Boisselier

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

— Shepard Smith

“Why did you become a journalist?” “Better than working for a living.”

— Leslie Cockburn

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

— Anthony Shadid

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.

— Felix Salmon

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

— Nanci Griffith

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

— Honore de Balzac

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,

— James Risen

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

— Helen Fisher

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous…

— Anonymous

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

— William Bennett

“being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.”

— Lemony Snicket

I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the…

— Joe Arpaio

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

— W. H. Auden

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a…

— Shane Smith

As a young journalist, I'd write a lot about Rafa and look how things have changed. I'm now in a position to…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as…

— Michael Pollan

The journalist's job isn't to be someone's friend, or their psychologist, or anything other than what we actually are. And at the…

— Sarah Stillman

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and…

— Roy H. Williams

[Donald] Trump's hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts…

— Chuck Todd

I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time,…

— Bertrand Russell

I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of…

— Amira Hass

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need…

— Kenneth Tynan

What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…

— Cyril Connolly

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with…

— Liane Balaban

I have been incredibly proud and incredibly humbled to have had a front-row seat in covering this election [2016]. I'm working the…

— Maria Bartiromo

One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for…

— Evgeny Morozov

And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

A refusal of shame about sexual assault and the prioritization of speaking your mind while using your real name - instead of…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

“Quit your bitching, if you're not pitching”

— Rebecca Aguilar

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

— Tom Wolfe

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

— Bernard Goldberg

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

— Jane Pauley

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

— David Bailey

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”

— Karl Kraus

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

— Fiona Bruce