American Journalist Quotations

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

I can't tell people what flag to fly.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

I have been over into the future, and it works.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

There is no such thing as being too independent.

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.