Quotes of Correspondent - somelinesforyou

“ Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ I used to get on great with journalists until I married Paul. ”

- Linda McCartney

“ If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ He was erudite, tough a classic journalist. When he talked about something, you knew he knew the territory. ”

- Larry King

“ If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. ”

- Max Hastings

“ Journalism is organized gossip. ”

- Edward Eggleston

“ Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ”

- Gerald Priestland

“ Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - It's great for the first two weeks. ”

- Lewis Grizzard

“ A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ”

- Daniel Bell

“ How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Sometimes journalists try to create a persona that's not really there. ”

- Jennifer Lopez

“ We are recorders and reporters of the facts-not judges of the behavior we describe. ”

- Alfred Kinsey

“ It was when "reporters" became "journalists" and when "objectivity" gave way to "searching for truth," that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. ”

- Georgie Anne Geyer

“ I've never had sex with Benicio Del Toro in a lift. It was a sarcastic quote that I unfortunately gave to a journalist. I said: 'Apparently, Benicio Del Toro and I had sex in an elevator. He printed it, then all the tabloids took out the word 'apparently'… ”

- Scarlett Johansson

“ I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. ”

- Auberon Waugh

“ It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ”

- Graham Greene

“ I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. ”

- James Boswell

“ I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. ”

- Russel Lynes

“ Bad manners make a journalist. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. ”

- Don Marquis

“ I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ”

- Barry Goldwater
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