Journalist Quotes · Page 17

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

— Tyrell Biggs

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

— Diablo Cody

She ate a television journalist for breakfast and, feeling peckish, bit off some reporters' heads at a press conference.

— Trevor Fishlock

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

— Benjamin Booker

You never know when you might become the most important journalist in the world.

— Tim Pool

I'm not a liberal or conservative journalist, I'm saying conservative-owned media corporations seem to be treated differently.

— Sharyl Attkisson

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

— Vladimir Putin

“I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd…

— Gwenda Bond

War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early…

— Sebastian Junger

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike.…

— Franz Beckenbauer

I don't know if I ever believed in the infallibility of a journalist's objectivity, but I definitely stopped flirting with the notion…

— Dana Loesch

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that…

— Amanda Lindhout

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic -…

— Glenn Greenwald

I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I…

— Jessie Ware

Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make…

— Danny Boyle

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being…

— Dario Argento

It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one,…

— Ang Lee

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You…

— Stephen A. Smith

I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!...…

— Anne Frank

If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones…

— Aaron Sorkin

The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish…

— Dean Baquet

I started working as a journalist under Bush, then Clinton, then Bush, then Obama.

— Sharyl Attkisson

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything…

— Lydia Polgreen

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in…

— Sheri Fink

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

— Rajeev Shukla

“Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.”

— Ann Coulter

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

— George Bernard Shaw

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

— Alexander Cockburn

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

— Robert Fisk

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private…

— Caitlin Thomas

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it…

— Honore de Balzac

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

— James Frey

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to think again.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at 'Vanity Fair.' I was Carrie Bradshaw... in sensible…

— Nell Scovell

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

— Katie Couric

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

— Germany Kent