Journalist Quotes · Page 11

“As a journalist and observer of mankind, I have more questions than answers. Sort of like an inquisitive child, still eager to…

— BubbaHarold

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

— James Risen

I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask…

— Jose Saramago

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

— Maureen Dowd

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

— Ken Auletta

It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.

— Emily Chang

“The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.”

— Gwenda Bond

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

— Anonymous

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions…

— Joan Konner

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the…

— Larry King

“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a…

— Cal Newport

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I…

— Boris Johnson

There is no question that policy makers, corporate leaders, pension consultants, and journalists too have to get out into the real world…

— Hedrick Smith

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has…

— Nancy Gibbs

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons…

— Jack White

Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that reaches back into our…

— Justin Cartwright

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

— Shashi Tharoor

A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the…

— Chuck Klosterman

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…

— Geraldine Brooks

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into…

— Evelyn Waugh

Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at…

— Eddie Cibrian

We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually…

— Conrad Black

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

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

— Harvey Weinstein

Portland calls itself a 'sanctuary city,' but it's nothing of the sort for a law-abiding journalist.

— Andy Ngo

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

— Kirsty Gallacher

All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

— Toby Jones

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

— William C. Bryant

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

— Robert Fisk

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

— Bill Nighy

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

— Roger Mudd

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the…

— Bill Walsh

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to…

— Todor Zhivkov

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think…

— Mary Pilon

“At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn’t seem to be…

— Ian Colquhoun

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

— Lionel Barber

“A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.”

— Henning Mankell

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

— Hamza Yusuf

I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.

— Fiona Barton