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

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

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

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Gerald W. Johnson

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

Helen Foster Snow

It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

One's visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life's work.

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

The image of a searching man held by Einstein and by Isaac Newton two hundred years before him is of a being wading in the shallows of the ocean of physical reality — trying to fathom the entirety by sampling only a part.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

John Chancellor

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 ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants worst enemies.

Astronomy is something a culture does when it wants to understand itself.

In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

Robert W. McChesney