All A J Liebling Quotes
- I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. Anybody
- I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy Bed
- Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting… Bottle
- Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. Big
- If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why… All
- The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Appetite
- An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. American
- Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience. Cynicism
- The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business. Business
- If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. Always Manage
- Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments. Bad
- I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or… Across
- A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. Cities
- Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. Belongs
- I can write better than anyone who can write faster, Anyone
- If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when… Appetite
- The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience… Accumulate
- Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing… Any
- It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject… Anomalies
- There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do… According
- The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young. Backward
- If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent… Any
- The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or… Alone
- People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. Confuse
- Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. Civil Rights