Journalist Quotes · Page 9

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

— Hugh Jackman

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

— Fred Armisen

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

— Antony Gormley

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

— Soledad O'Brien

I was a football journalist for six years before going to Channel 4.

— Alex Brooker

I've resisted the tag 'citizen journalist' - that's not what I am.

— Tim Pool

That's why we have journalists, for stats.

— Maria Sharapova

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

— Karl Kraus

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

— Jake Tapper

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

— Shane Smith

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

— Benjamin Booker

I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide…

— David Grann

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

— Sophie Kinsella

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

— Robin Williams

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do…

— Donald Davis

Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best.…

— Louie Giglio

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had…

— Philippe Falardeau

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies.…

— Nick Denton

Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But…

— Ian Mckellen

The day was warm and clear. Kids were playing soccer in the parking lots and women were sunning their babies and having…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a…

— Dave Barry

What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for…

— Nat Hentoff

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other…

— Julian Assange

After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it…

— Neil Oliver

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had…

— Shashi Tharoor

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say…

— Cameron Crowe

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men…

— Bertrand Russell

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who…

— L. Neil Smith

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…

— W. Eugene Smith

I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I'll say it: The whole notion that I am supposed to…

— Dean Baquet

As a young aspiring journalist, I felt I was put into a box.

— Elaine Welteroth

Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

— Randall Rothenberg

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

— Otto von Bismarck

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

— Rebecca Mead

Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious!

— Jimmy Breslin

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

— Ana Patricia Botin

I'm not a journalist, never pretend to be.

— Rex Chapman

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb