Quotes by Journalists

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance. Alexandra Petri

Life Health You Age Experience Lose Teeth Restaurants Ability Like Health Insurance Ball Insurance Pit Gain Play Things

All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living. Alexandra Petri

Time Great Thoughts Business Writing Emotions Living Great American Our Spend Kin Could American Just Just Living Next Tweeting Novel Starting

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. Alistair Cooke

Man Men Incurable Prophecy Habit Fellow Fellow Men His Fulfilling

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Ambrose Bierce

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Ambrose Bierce

Success Perseverance Mediocrity Virtue Achieves Whereby Lowly

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce

Enough Borrow Know Well Well Enough Person Lend Acquaintance Whom

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. Ambrose Bierce

Life Age Youth Three Folly Between Sin Remorse Period Idiocy Infancy Childhood Human Manhood Human Life Intermediate Two

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. Ambrose Bierce

Success Our Unpardonable Sin Fellows Against Success Is

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce

Religion State French Mayonnaise Place Which Serve

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. Ambrose Bierce

Madness Rum Total Fiery Produce

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. Ambrose Bierce

You Man Speak Find He Him

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Ambrose Bierce

Visible Support Without Opinion Prejudice Means

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more. Anderson Cooper

You More Tend Outsider Observe Feel Like Lot Things

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts. Anderson Cooper

Time Me Gone Too Respected About Seemed Could Adult Long-Term Instincts Since Most Talked Course Around None Always Got How Were Where Predicted Them Plan Younger Then Waste Waste Of Time

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me. Andy Rooney

Me Pick Subjects Much

Americans don't want immigration. They don't want any more. Why can't we have a home? You see on 'National Geographic,' 'Oh, the indigenous people, they have a home.' Everyone else can have a home. We are the only people on Earth not allowed to have a home. Ann Coulter

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. Ann Coulter

Vote Women Better Country Would Would-Be Fact Simply Did Much

If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether. Ann Coulter

Airlines Airport Muslims Security Only Could Altogether Boycott Get Dispense