Journalist Quotes · Page 23

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

— Andy Ngo

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

“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

“At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in…

— Celeste Ng

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they…

— Marc Jacobs

The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything…

— Robert Scheer

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got…

— Pete Burns

Somebody would say, 'Can you write us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels?' And I'd say, 'Yes, of course,' because…

— Neil Gaiman

A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I…

— Gideon Haigh

Most films that I do, whether successful or not, just fade away. They have their moment in the sun, then they are…

— Danny Boyle

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t…

— Julia Cameron

I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a…

— Mitchel Resnick

People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have…

— Jon Stewart

The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests…

— Karim Sadjadpour

What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the…

— Linda Foley

I do think people need to recognize that a lot of journalists want to write a story a certain way because the…

— Ray Dalio

I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies…

— Olivier Assayas

Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy.…

— David Robert Whitehouse

We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could…

— Diana DeGette

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

— W. H. Auden

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

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

— Lemony Snicket

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

— Hedrick Smith

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

— Jacky Ickx

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

— Brianna Wu

I don't care if people consider me a journalist or a podcaster, or just a girl that talks online every week.

— Alex Cooper

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of…

— Tori Amos

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I…

— Michael Pollan

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

— Richard Engel

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

— John Humphrys

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

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

— Anonymous

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