Journalist Quotes · Page 25

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

— Aminatta Forna

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

— Orji Uzor Kalu

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

— David Duchovny

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have…

— Neal Boortz

David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?

— Ann Coulter

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

— Michael Arrington

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

— Ron Fournier

I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist,…

— Shaul Schwarz

As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating…

— Jennifer Egan

I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange.…

— Craig F. Bohren

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple…

— Anthony Holden

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s,…

— Brian Skerry

I've played journalists before Elles, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far…

— Juliette Binoche

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever…

— George Orwell

The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not…

— Ansel Adams

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have…

— Anna Politkovskaya

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us…

— Tom Robbins

There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger…

— P. J. O'Rourke

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I…

— Christopher Poole

The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner…

— Nat Hentoff

I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that…

— Noam Chomsky

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks…

— Dan Rather

If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at…

— Vaclav Havel

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

— Glenn Beck

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

— Robert Draper

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

— Karl Rove

I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.

— Lisa Lampanelli

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world…

— Michael Connelly

Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

— Ann Coulter

I am an ordinary citizen and quite insignificant, but I am also a vigilant and committed journalist.

— Ravish Kumar

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data…

— David McCandless

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

— Tony Snow

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

— Jeff Pearlman

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

— Jon Rappoport

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

— Patrick O'Brian

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland