top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Journalist
"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."
13
"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."
13
"I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me."
13
"It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them."
13
"But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know."
13
"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."
13
"It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers."
13
"Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?"
13
"I have never been attracted to any kind of violence."
13
"I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again."
13
"He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled."
13
"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
13
"My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing."
13
"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
13
"We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference."
13
"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House."
13
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
13
"Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!"
13
"Television has a real problem. They have no page two."
13
"I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one."
13
"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."
13
"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."
13
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
13
"All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind."
13
"The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts."
13
"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."
13
"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
13
"For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda."
13
"When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911."
13
"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."
13
"We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century."
13
"Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?"
13
"It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that."
13
"Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well."
13
"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
13
"I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system."
13
"Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady."
13
"So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense."
13
"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
13
"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
13
"I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read."
13
"If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards."
13
"The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda."
13
"It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS."
13
"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting."
13
"I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear."
13
bottom of page