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Quotes by Journalist
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
100
"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more."
97
"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
94
"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."
94
"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured."
92
"There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads."
91
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
90
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
90
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
89
"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."
89
"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."
89
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
84
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
84
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
82
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
80
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."
79
"He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers."
78
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
78
"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not."
77
"Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial."
77
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
77
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
77
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
76
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
75
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
75
"I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore."
75
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
75
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
75
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
74
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
74
"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."
74
"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
73
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
73
"Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own."
73
"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."
72
"This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart."
72
"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister."
72
"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
71
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
70
"I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection."
70
"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."
69
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
69
"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death."
69
"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."
69
"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
69
"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."
69
"It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out."
69
"Americans like fat books and thin women."
68
"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
68
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