Journalist Quotes

And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that's OK.

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.

There is nothing-
No life,
No joy,
No pain-
There is nothing save opinion,
And opinion be damned.

If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.

Robert X. Cringely

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Walter Cronkite

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Salmon have strange ideas. They are afraid of parsley and slices of lemon.

The military front in its traditional meaning has disappeared and has been replaced by something structurally different. As a result of a set of variables such as globalisation, information technology, international finance, etc., we have now moved from a geopolitics based on space to a geopolitics based on flows.

Corrado Maria Daclon

When you're called up you don't need many personal belongings — not when you love either.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Anthony Daniels

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

Robertson Davies

Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.

This is Soho, where anything goes, just make sure it's not your wallet.

My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.

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.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

There's this strange schizophrenia in American publishing between fiction and nonfiction.

John Dos Passos

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Theodore Dreiser

I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.

The point is that the techniques are pretty much the same in fiction and nonfiction.

Of Cate Blanchett:

That Blanchett could appear in the same Toronto Film Festival playing Elizabeth and Bob Dylan, both splendidly, is a wonder of acting.

A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a gentleman without being English! And it is this that makes them so detested. They never fuse, they never lose their Englishness.

José Maria Eça de Queiroz