American Journalist Quotes

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

Chris Hayes (journalist)

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

Ellery Sedgwick

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.

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings — Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

Sergei Dovlatov

The small library in my Cleveland-area day school was merely a gateway drug to the local public library a mile from my home. I spent innumerable hours there as a boy, addicted as much to the serendipitous pleasures of searching for a good book as to the satisfying relish of losing myself in its pages once I found one.

Jeff Jacoby (columnist)

Pearl Harbor led us into a great war and out of a great depression. This new war on terrorism will be fought less conventionally, and it could lead us into a deep recession.

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

If technology... is to be regarded as a great engine, a mighty accelerator, then knowledge must be regarded as its fuel. And we thus come to the crux of the accelerative process in society, for the engine is being fed a richer and richer fuel every day.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.

Robert Sherrill

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Sheldon Vanauken

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

Cathleen Falsani

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

Michael Connelly

I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice.... No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.

A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

And the Third World will continue to beckon to the First, reminding it of the Galilean vision of Christian solidarity.

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

Myra MacPherson

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)

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and.667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes—not that you won or lost—but how you played the Game.

The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.