American Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

Jack London

Emma Goldman

Norman Mailer

Jane Addams

Margaret Mitchell

Roger Ebert

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

Richard Harding Davis

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Gerald W. Johnson

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.

Ernest Hemingway

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.

The mind of a traveler has only one spotlight, and it is always trained on the present scene.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.

The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

What makes the goal of accuracy so vexing for chatbots is that they operate probabilistically when choosing the next word in a sentence; they aren't trying to find the light of truth in a murky world.

The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

The New Yorker will be the magazine that is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.