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

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.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

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

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

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

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.

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

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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

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

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

A conventional 'success' story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I'd like to suggest an alternative 'success' story – one where, with each next, the protagonist is closer to finding that spot where he's no longer held back by his heart, and he explodes with talent, and his character blossoms, and the gift he has to offer the world is apparent.

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.

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

Susan Brownmiller

Militant Muslims want Islam and sharia law to dominate the West. Their goal is to subvert the U.S. Constitution and our way of life to the will of Allah. The word Islam means submission. What members of the American Left seem blind to is the fact that in countries where Islam dominates, their progressive ideas would be crushed and many of them would be thrown in jail simply because of their lifestyle choices. Yet, the American Left continues to serve as apologist-in-chief for fundamentalist Islam. Why? Because deep down American Leftists are terrified of Islamic fundamentali

Trump took the elements of an independent candidacy — the lack of clear ideology, the name recognition of a national celebrity and the personal fortune needed to fund a presidential campaign — and then did what no one seemed to have thought of before. He staged a hostile takeover of an existing major party. He had the best of both worlds, an outsider candidacy with crosscutting ideological appeal and the platform of a major party to wage the general election. By the time he had finished, he had taken down two political dynasties: the Bush dynasty in the primaries and the Clinton dynasty in the general election.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Roger Rosenblatt

The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

William Cowper Brann