Reporter Quotes · Page 5

I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's…

— Maria Bartiromo

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as…

— Leon Golub

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as…

— Susan Cheever

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than…

— Phyllis Battelle

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

— Stephen A. Smith

I want to be able to go on a date, hang with all of my friends, and not be outed on someone…

— Jason Collins

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through…

— Terry Pratchett

Basically, sometimes a reporter will ask a question, and I feel the answers only matter when the questions are relevant.

— Anderson Silva

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented…

— Willa Cather

When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I…

— Mark Leibovich

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time…

— John Irving

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has…

— Bob Schieffer

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News.…

— Mike Wallace

“Is it possible that a crime was committed?” the female reporter asked in that excessively empathetic way that’s designed to make inferior…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

I didn't want to just be an analyst for women's basketball and volleyball. I didn't just want to be a sideline reporter.…

— Maria Taylor

I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on…

— Jorge Masvidal

But as a reporter, that's how you know you're doing a good job - when no one's talking about you. And something…

— Maria Taylor

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

— Ron Suskind

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one…

— Jim Bishop

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

— Andrew Sullivan

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

— Michelle Beadle

“Gunfire cracked around them. “Just warning shots,” he yelled. “How do you know?” “We’re not dead.”

— Brynn Kelly

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

— J. Michael Straczynski

“The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.”

— Gwenda Bond

Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.

— William Finnegan

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

— Gayle Gardner

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter…

— John Tesh

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

— Allan Sloan

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

— Andrea Mitchell

One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

— Terry Pratchett

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

— Orlando Bloom

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely…

— Gene Weingarten

When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.

— Jill Davis

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

— Jackie Kennedy

“It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.”

— Brynn Kelly

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

— John Travolta

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying,…

— Charles Kuralt