Journalist Quotes

716 Journalist quotes by 527 unique authors

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat. — Jim Lehrer
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic… — John Thomas Sladek
Never lose your sense of the superficial. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. — Russell Baker
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked… — Daniel Handler
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials… — Hunter S. Thompson
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people… — Garrison Keillor
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. — Jim Harrison
The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. — Ted Koppel
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us… — Barry Lopez
I always wanted to be a serious journalist. — Jeannette Walls
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and… — Armand Hammer
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many… — Bill Moyers
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything… — Jonathan Raban
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have… — Amy Vanderbilt
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. — Roger Mudd
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to… — Laurie Notaro
It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never… — Hassan Nasrallah
Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking… — Oscar Niemeyer
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. — Douglas Preston
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20… — Louise Penny
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears… — Louise Penny
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. — William C. Brown
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies. — Nancy Pearcey
Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats. — Sally Quinn

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