“ Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. ”
- Adlai Stevenson- Copy
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“ I used to get on great with journalists until I married Paul. ”
- Linda McCartney- Copy
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“ He was erudite, tough a classic journalist. When he talked about something, you knew he knew the territory. ”
- Larry King- Copy
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“ If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. ”
- Max Hastings- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ”
- Gerald Priestland- Copy
- 153
“ Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - It's great for the first two weeks. ”
- Lewis Grizzard- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ”
- Daniel Bell- Copy
- 3.8K
“ How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Sometimes journalists try to create a persona that's not really there. ”
- Jennifer Lopez- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We are recorders and reporters of the facts-not judges of the behavior we describe. ”
- Alfred Kinsey- Copy
- 307
“ It was when "reporters" became "journalists" and when "objectivity" gave way to "searching for truth," that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. ”
- Georgie Anne Geyer- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I've never had sex with Benicio Del Toro in a lift. It was a sarcastic quote that I unfortunately gave to a journalist. I said: 'Apparently, Benicio Del Toro and I had sex in an elevator. He printed it, then all the tabloids took out the word 'apparently'… ”
- Scarlett Johansson- Copy
- 2K
“ I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. ”
- Auberon Waugh- Copy
- 1K
“ It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. ”
- Otto Von Bismarck- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. ”
- James Boswell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
- 883
“ Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. ”
- Russel Lynes- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ”
- Barry Goldwater- Copy
- 2.1K
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