Journalist Quotes · Page 14

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

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

— Jacky Ickx

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

— Hedrick Smith

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

— Brianna Wu

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

— Zachary Cole Smith

If you're a good journalist, you can probably be a good screenwriter or novelist. That skillset travels.

— Cord Jefferson

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

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 is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they…

— Oscar Wilde

“I’d no idea that you’d prove such an able apprentice. You were sure to be a journalist, in which case the chances…

— Lionel Shriver

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not in the business of being 'friendly.' First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that…

— Tom Wicker

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the…

— Richard Peto

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They…

— Caitlin Thomas

I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the…

— Laurence Shames

I think our primary function is to create the strongest, deepest, most interesting news report there is in the world.And whether it's…

— Jill Abramson

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf…

— Suzy Menkes

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have…

— Charles Dickens

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never…

— John F. Kennedy

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living…

— Rob Sheffield

I have so much more compassion for journalists and the work that they have to do, in order to do the jobs…

— Thomas Sadoski

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and…

— Edward Snowden

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's…

— Janet Fitch

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

— Bill Moyers

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

— Anonymous

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

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

— Craig Charles

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it…

— Natasha Kaplinsky

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.

— Dave Barry

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

— Alex Garland

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

— Neeraj Kabi

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I…

— Dan Rather

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

— Owen Arthur

Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,

— Robert Fisk

“He needed no foreplay for the interview, and I was grateful. It's like sweet-talking your date when you both know you're about…

— Gillian Flynn

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

— Rei Kawakubo

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

— Annie Leibovitz

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the…

— Glenn Beck