Reporter Quotes · Page 6

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was…

— Larry Kramer

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

— H. L. Mencken

“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t…

— Brynn Kelly

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

I'm an international studies major. I've been a reporter. I was always interested in media, but I just didn't know specifically what.

— Claudia Kim

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

— Dana Goodyear

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to…

— Walter Cronkite

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

— Sam Raimi

“That afternoon, a reporter from the Westcliff Star calls the house and asks if she can interview me for a story. Sully,…

— Francesca Zappia

“I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of…

— Peter Drucker

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have…

— Louise Slaughter

If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow…

— Hank Stuever

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by…

— Tom Rachman

As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered…

— LZ Granderson

But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as…

— Bob Schieffer

I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.

— Mark Cuban

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of…

— Joseph Lelyveld

“Her embrace is an unwelcome reminder the rumor mill is stronger than my reporting.”

— Christina Estes

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt…

— Carl Bernstein

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

— Willie Stargell

I was in Bucks County at the 'Bucks County Currier Times,' which is a great place to start for any reporter who…

— Erik Larson

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity…

— Heather Brooke

“He thought I’d be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I’d consistently…

— Gillian Flynn

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Painter baby you could be the muse. I'm the reporter baby you could be the news.

— Miguel Jontel

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

I was always the sideline reporter or something similar to that - which is essentially, but this isn't always true, the 'woman's…

— Samantha Ponder

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

— Orlando Bloom

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

— Jill Davis

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

— Gene Weingarten

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

— John Tesh

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Andrea Mitchell

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

— Allan Sloan

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

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

— Michelle Beadle

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

— Ambrose Bierce