Quotes by Journalists

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery. Jeremy Paxman
Work Art Alone Time You People Drop Other Employers Call Beck Leave Expected Just Gallery Less Less Time Things
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. Jessica Savitch
War You Easily Robbery Cover Die Bank Bank Robbery War Zone Racing Zone
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. Jim Bishop
Daughter Collected Date Dating Over Feels Like Gorilla Dollar Handing Being Your Her Million Watching
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been. Jim Lehrer
Own Has-Been My Own More Journalism Been Than View Now Ever Need
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jimmy Cannon
Christmas Lonely Holiday Rejected
One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth. John Dickerson
Truth People President Press Telling Telling The Truth Voice Make Sure Roles
Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government? John Dickerson
Government Politicians Gone Meeting Would Russian Someone Most Being Agent
It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency. John Dickerson
Think Presidency Fathers Say Would Modern Hard Founding Founding Fathers
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. John Gunther
Good Country Ours Only Deliberately Only Country Idea Founded Good Idea
I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog. John Pilger
Political Underdog Household Were Up Very Where Grew Sydney
When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good. John Pomfret
Best Myself Good Eyes Somebody Believe Think Insert See About More Could Write Because Mistreated Equation Up Stop Being Want Much Really Tear Thing
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. John Reed
Government Time People Every Relations Weak Excites Masses Contempt Authorities Refusal Act Rebellious
Pepsi is the second-most-recognized beverage brand in the world after Coke, and eighteen of PepsiCo's other brands, which include Tropicana, Gatorade, and Quaker Oats, are billion-dollar businesses in their own right. John Seabrook
World Own Coke Other Oats Pepsi Beverage Quaker Brand Brands Eighteen After Which Businesses Include Right
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes
Writing Key Feeling Gut Gut Feeling Scene Emotional Failed Cry While
It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance. Jon Katz
Great Me You Anger Acceptance Remember Guilt Animals Important Thinking Lying Could Come Come And Go Accepting How Go Very Going Human Grieving Us Pets Why Keeping Things
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. Jon Katz
Life Change Writing Animals Other Dogs Continue Goats Cows Donkeys Rooster Grumpy
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. Jon Ronson
Writing Enjoy Solve About Mystery Most Trying
If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in. Joshua Foer
Time Best You Memories Memory Go Away Back Our Later Once Lock Degrade Network Neural Come Make Return Learn Stick Leave Go Behind Want Information While Again Across Engage Naturally Help Each Each Time Away Deeply
In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term. Juan Williams
Lost Lyndon President Lyndon Johnson Jimmy Jimmy Carter Presidents Run Carter Only Johnson Term Bids Ford George Years Did Bush Second Last Second Term
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. Juan Williams
Champion School Political Party Unions Members Corrupt More School Children Longer Democratic Protecting Democratic Party Within Block Friend Brand Than Reform Done Children Clout Interested Public Them Much View Teachers Less Views Union Even Serious Damage
The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them. Kai Ryssdal
Funny Funny Thing Run Sluggish Feel Miss Like Know How Getting Them Really Working Workouts Thing Start Need
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else. Kate Adie
Life Saying Time Life Is Too Short Too Else Something Something Else Point No Time Miss Gosh Go Sitting Endless Any Oh Short Nostalgia Used Things
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. Kate Adie
Good Silence Democracy Better Secrecy Never Information Works
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. Kate Adie
You Struggle Censorship Military Press Fact Along Like Without Go Were Covering Reporters Any Situations In Fact Legitimate Right British
The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer. Kate Reardon
Future You Communicate Will Way Per Employer How Any Cent Personally
Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age. Katharine Viner
Business Age Digital Feelings Digital Age Our Constantly Because Surveillance Model Movements Business Model
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