American Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

Jack London

Emma Goldman

Norman Mailer

Jane Addams

Margaret Mitchell

Roger Ebert

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

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

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.

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

Gerald W. Johnson

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

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.

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

All enduring love between two people, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically normal to the couple immersed in it.

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

In Islam, there is no difference between the state and the religion. The religion is the state, the state is the religion.

Brigitte Gabriel

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

And one more thing: Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.

Clinton Kelly (TV personality)

Psychologist Philip Tetlock (following the lead of Isaiah Berlin), divided the world of political forecasters into hedgehogs and foxes.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

The era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system

Richard Heinberg

The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.

Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.

If you have even a smidgen of doubt that you'll be able to stay away from racking up additional debt, don't do it.