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

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

Margaret Mitchell

We've always had great letter writers, readers, great storytellers in our family. I've listened all my life to articulate people. They were all great storytellers, and every story had shape and meaning and point.

Katherine Anne Porter

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.

Andrew Ferguson

It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Nicholas D. Kristof

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.

Scott Anderson (novelist)

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.

If you can't be yourself with a man, you can't be with that man.