American Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

Jack London

Emma Goldman

Norman Mailer

Jane Addams

Margaret Mitchell

Roger Ebert

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

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

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

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

William S. Paley

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

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

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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.

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

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

Ernest Hemingway

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.

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.

The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things

Augusten Burroughs

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

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.

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

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

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.

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.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.