Journalist Quotes

In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestor dive: From a shapeless albuminous grain We mortals our being derive. He could split himself up into five, Or roll himself round like a ball; For the fittest will always survive, While the weakliest go to the wall.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

The young physician is not aware how soon his elementary knowledge — much of which is historical and descriptive, rather than philosophical — will fade from his mind, when he ceases to study. That which he possesses can only be retained by new additions.

The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.

R. Foster Winans

I was looking for the authentic Negro experience, which of course my own wasn't, since being bourgeois somehow negated being black.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

If there were nothing else, reading would—obviously—be worth living for.

Nuala O'Faolain

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Isabella Beeton

Any solution to a problem changes the problem

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

Craig Claiborne

Intellectual freedom, of course, implies intellectual diversity.

Frances FitzGerald (journalist)

At this point, is the average person boarding a plane more fearful of Al Qaeda or TSA?

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.

Tadeusz Borowski

When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

Harold C. Schonberg

As opposed to the agenda from people like you to boost Sarah Palin, who is clearly unqualified.

My four Southern food groups are bourbon, salt, bacon and pie.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Most of us have collections of sayings we live by.... Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.

Ray Stannard Baker

To reform the House of Lords [in 1910] meant to set down in writing a Constitution which for centuries had remained happily unwritten, to conjure a great ghost into the narrow and corruptible flesh of a code.

George Dangerfield