American Journalist Quotes

#1. I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

J.K. Rowling

#2. More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.

Lewis H. Lapham

#3. American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a young girl?
Edith Piaf: Love.
American journalist: To a child?
Edith Piaf: Love.

Edith Piaf

#4. Why, to give another suggestive example, did it take an American journalist sixty-five days to get official permission (including, after a wait of up to five weeks, a Food

Niall Ferguson

#5. 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

#6. A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

Tom Bethell

#7. The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

David Halberstam

#8. As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.

Scott Anderson

#9. I don't know the right way to retire.

Barry Sanders

#10. Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.

John Conyers

#11. The outside world can be very tough.

Jennifer Garner

#12. Long Island is the single most segregated suburban area in the United States.

Calvin Trillin

#13. We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

Bill Hybels

#14. As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.

Amy Goodman

#15. I mean, I don't want to pass judgment - I just wish my husband didn't shoot deer."
"Oh, Mel, don't worry. I've been hunting with your husband - the deer are completely safe.

Robyn Carr

#16. Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists.

Ann Coulter

#17. I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

Paula Zahn

#18. Doubt has also been cast on the value of McKeith's certified membership of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, especially since Guardian journalist Ben Goldacre managed to buy the same membership online for his dead cat for $60.

Ben Goldacre

#19. Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you ...

Rex Stout

#20. But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.

Annia Ciezadlo

#21. Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

Mark Cuban

#22. Can something be created in language independently of the people who use the language? Can language become a self-replicating system or ... ' I'm drunk, I suddenly realise, so I shut up. But

Scarlett Thomas

#23. You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

Dave Ramsey

#24. Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.

Chris Rock

#25. To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#26. Hobbs and Sutcliffe. More than any other players in those years they raised the status of the professional cricketer.

Stephen Chalke

#27. I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

Samantha Power

#28. God touched him." Pigpen points one finger in the air. "And with that one touch, he dislocates Jacobs hip. One touch and it was over.

Katie McGarry