American Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

Jack London

Emma Goldman

Norman Mailer

Jane Addams

Margaret Mitchell

Roger Ebert

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

Gerald W. Johnson

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

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

William S. Paley

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.

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 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

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

Ernest Hemingway

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

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

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

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

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

Hunter S. Thompson

I never forgot that schooling had irretrievably changed my family's life. That knowledge, however, did not weaken ambition. Instead, it strengthened resolve. Those times I remembered the loss of my past with regret, I quickly reminded myself of all the things my teachers could give me. (They could make me an educated man.) I tightened my grip on pencil and books. I evaded nostalgia. Tried hard to forget. But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers. I remembered too well that education had changed my family's life. I would not have become a scholarship boy had I not so often remembered.

Richard Rodriguez

Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet.... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

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.

Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)

Charles Krauthammer

There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Christopher Morley

Libertarians, in short, simply do not believe that theft is proper whether it is committed in the name of a state, a class, a crises, a credo, or a cliche. This is a far cry from sharing common ground with those who want to create a society in which super capitalists are free to amass vast holdings and who say that that is ultimately the most important purpose of freedom.

For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

Franklin Pierce Adams

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.