Journalist Quotes · Page 11

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

— Mark Leibovich

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

— Tina Brown

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

— Rajeev Shukla

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist…

— Mandy Moore

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

— A. N. Wilson

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

— Hugh Jackman

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

— Katharine Gun

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15,…

— Richard Branson

For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and…

— Howell Raines

Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must…

— Nhat Hanh

To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I'm loath to say too much about them.…

— Tom Gross

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money…

— P. J. O'Rourke

...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti…

— John Shelby Spong

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you…

— Suzy Menkes

Ijust had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and…

— Will Ferrell

Is any job safe? I was hoping to say 'journalist,' but researchers are already developing algorithms that can gather facts and write…

— Daniel Lyons

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my…

— Natascha McElhone

I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12…

— Nancy Meyers

If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them…

— Ann Friedman

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that…

— Jorge Ramos

I was a journalist's dream case study; a gobby girl with an accent who was good at engineering.

— Steph McGovern

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure…

— Rush Limbaugh

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

— Dave Barry

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

— Robertson Davies

To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.

— Winnie Harlow

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

— David Remnick

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

— Anonymous

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

— Ralph Fiennes

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do…

— Emmanuel Adebayor

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

— Greg LeMond

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

— Colin Wilson

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

— Frederick Wiseman

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

— Thalia

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

— Giles Coren

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

— Diego Maradona

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

— David Grann