Journalist Quotations

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

I can't tell people what flag to fly.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

I have been over into the future, and it works.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.

There is no such thing as being too independent.

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros.

A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.

Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

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.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.