Quotes by Journalists

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic. Eduardo Galeano

Feel Until Am Noon Optimistic Then Pessimistic

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. Edward R. Murrow

Once Exalt Ideas Importance Just Information While Us Let Us

Every boss I've ever had has challenged me, pushed me, believed in me, and led by example. Elaine Welteroth

Me Example Every Boss Pushed Had Led Believed Challenged Ever

What is unusual is not always threatening. What is different is not necessarily strange. Elaine Welteroth

Strange Threatening Unusual Always Different Necessarily

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? Ellen Goodman

Parenting Gave Fathers Our Distance Hook Criticize More Always How Mothers Off Expected Closeness Them Us Less Many Appreciated

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice. Ellen Goodman

Job Living Think Society Changes Despite Way Having Voice Observing Journalism Make Still Fantastic Use Your Chance

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

Home Will Free Long Only Remain Brave Land

We can't let censorship take over. Elmer Davis

Censorship Take Over

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. Eric Sevareid

Men Power Something Boy Order Want

Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits. Erin Andrews

God created man, but I could do better. Erma Bombeck

God Man Better Could Created

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. Erma Bombeck

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. Erma Bombeck

You Because Go Friend Diet Fat

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. Ernie Pyle

Eyes Simple Victory Hatred Nothing Despair Else Though Had Excitement Pass Doing Been Forever Just Being Expression Here Tonic

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform. Eskinder Nega

Government Spring Arab Arab Spring Similar Something Never Overthrow Reform Authoritarian Report Did Happen Regime Might Ethiopia Suggest

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture. Euny Hong

Culture Classic Discourse Error American Race

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks. Evan Osnos

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts. Evan Osnos

You Somebody Interview Interview Somebody Say Something Facts Hours Manipulation Number

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. Ford Frick

Word Insist Avoid Sarcasm Last