Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

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

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

My whole model, from the beginning, was not to personally publish a single document. I provided these documents to journalists because I didn't want my biases to decide what's in the public interest and what is not.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Never trust a journalist.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

Only two journalists followed the team around.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

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

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.

So much of what I say gets sensationalized and journalists have to report on scandal because that's what people are hungry to read about.

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.