Journalist Quotes

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

Nothing, but nothing, is as washed up as a rock star past her prime.

It 's no matter what you do
If your heart be only true,
And his heart was true to Poll.

Francis Burnand

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

Given the way these mutants treat women in their societies, the women are probably better off in U.S. custody. They treat women like furniture in those countries. If I was a woman, I think I'd rather be in an American jail cell than I would be living with one of those-whatever they are over there.

When astronomers express dissatisfaction with both the Big Bang and the Steady State concepts of the universe, they are in trouble, because it is hard to imagine radical alternatives.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

The test of a good classical moralization is that it seems to have been written for oneself alone.

James Cameron (journalist)

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Cricket's all right in spite of the newspapers, but the trouble is that three quarters of us don't know how to use our own gifts.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

Nicholas G. Carr

Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster. … When you and many of your colleagues were pushing for more minority lending and more expanded lending to folks who heretofore couldn't get mortgages, when you were pushing homeownership … Are you totally without culpability here? Are you totally blameless? Are you totally irresponsible of anything that happened?

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.

Nicolas Chamfort

Muhammad isn't sacred to me. I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don't live under Quranic law.

In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to see another first — attempted suicide.

Christine Chubbuck

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

William Cobbett

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

Alexander Cockburn

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism.... In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

There is undoubtedly something religious about it: everyone believes that they are special, that they are chosen, that they have a special relation with fate. Here is the test: you turn over card after card to see in which way that is true. If you can defy the odds, you may be saved. And when you are cleaned out, the last penny gone, you are enlightened at last, free perhaps, exhilarated like an ascetic by the falling away of the material world.

Andrei Codrescu

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.

The citron or spicy grove for me would never yield A perfume half so grateful as the lilies of the field.

Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Anderson Cooper

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.