American Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

Jack London

Emma Goldman

Norman Mailer

Jane Addams

Roger Ebert

Margaret Mitchell

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

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

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.

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.

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

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

Gerald W. Johnson

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

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

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

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.

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

William S. Paley

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 future of Thought and therefore of History lies in the hands of physicists, and therefore the future historian must seek his education in the world of mathematical physics.

As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.

In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?

Shana Alexander

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight!

Elizabeth Chase Allen

Here we have drug that is not like opium. Opium has all of the good of Dr. Jekyll and all the evil of Mr. Hyde. This drug is entirely the monster Hyde, the harmful effect of which cannot be measured. Some people will fly into a delirious rage, and they are temporarily irresponsible and may commit violent crimes. Other people will laugh uncontrollably. It is impossible to say what the effect will be on any individual. Those research men who have tried it have always been under control. They have always insisted upon that. … It is dangerous to the mind and body, and particularly dangerous to the criminal type, because it releases all of the inhibitions.

Harry J. Anslinger

But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'

Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.