Journalist Quotes

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw

Time, Before, Twice

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'Rourke

Great, War, Alive

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
Marilyn Manson

Home, Freedom, Help

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
Jose Mourinho

Love, Game, Football

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
Christopher Hitchens

Press, Rely, Partly

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
Christopher Hitchens

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
Jessica Savitch

Serious, Wanted, Accepted

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Jean de La Fontaine

Evil, Owes, Tribute

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.
Hugh Jackman

Actually, University, Graduated

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
Tori Amos

Time, Find, Half

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
W. H. Auden

Travel, Difficult, Artist

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
Cicely Tyson

Love, Women, Men

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
Liam Neeson

Why, Tell, Personal

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson

Become, Keep, Wanted

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
Freeman Dyson

Good, Important, Scientist

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck

Person, Calling, Mistaken

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel

Best, Legal, Political

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Norman Mailer

Smart, Person, Enough

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.
Ron Fournier

Wife, Made, Clinton

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.
Diablo Cody

Rock, Write, Meaning

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
Ralph Fiennes

Coming, Tabloid

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
Kathy Griffin

Great, Anger, Job

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.
Johnny Vegas

Life, Time, Same

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.
Lena Dunham

Thought, Wanted, Novelist

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
Clive Owen

Stupid, Himself, Knows

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Time, Business, Lie

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Sarah Palin

Blood, Hands, Inspire

I am a journalist.
Jesse Jackson

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus

Time, Person, Ideas

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