American Journalist Quotes

In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.

Ellery Sedgwick

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

The French have a meticulous code in business that allows them to sound incredibly helpful and generous and courteous while basically telling you to get lost. They deliver this dismissive news with the most mellifluous voice imaginable, the more melodious and beautiful the delivery, the less accommodating the message.

The air currents of the world never ventilated his mind.

Walter Hines Page

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

Alexander Cockburn

Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change."...

Daniel Pinchbeck

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.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Seems like yesterday; seems like forever—all at the same time. It's sort of, how do you measure it? Do you measure the fact that I'm 20 years older? No. I think I measure it by the events. You know, I came just as the Cold War was coming to an end. When you think about the events that we've been through, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to, I guess you'd say, 9/11 being the culmination at the end of that — of that scope — what extraordinary changes there have been.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

Kathrine Switzer

Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.

People who feel positively think differently. They think better.

Deborah Norville

Unlike men, who are apt to stab a total stranger in a drunken brawl or run amuck with a high-powered rifle, we women usually kill our intimates: We kill our children, our husbands, our lovers.

Ann Jones (author)

Statistics declare that the Average Man Finds the Average Woman and mates; That the Average Family, children all told, Is something like two and three-eights. (Though fractional children disturb and appall, The Average Man isn't worried at all.)

Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.

Even though fructose has no immediate effect on blood sugar and insulin, over time -maybe a few years-it is a likely cause of insulin resistance and thus the increased storage of calories as fat. The needle on our fuel-partitioning gauge will point toward fat storage, even if it didn't start out that way,

Fantasy must always genuflect before reality.

Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better. or is this real?

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word 'human'.

Suzanne La Follette

American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.

Peggy Orenstein

The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.

Lynne McTaggart

Let's face it, sports writers, we're not hanging around with brain surgeons.

Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal.