Journalist Quotes

716 Journalist quotes by 527 unique authors

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. — Isabel Allende
My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as… — George Clooney
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. — Diablo Cody
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! — Leonard Cohen
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. — Eric Alterman
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half… — Tori Amos
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists… — Tom Brokaw
Explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he helped arrange a private interview for them with… — Richard V. Allen
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. — Mark Twain
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork. — Ken Auletta
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm… — Nhat Hanh
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. — Nicolas Bentley
We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could rise to even… — Diana DeGette
Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the… — Unknown Author
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly
If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier? — Scott Pelley
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll… — Anna Kendrick
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than… — Robert J. Samuelson
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction. — David Remnick
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession… — Conrad Black

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