John Gunther Quotes

#1. If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

John Gunther

#2. God is what's good in me.

John Gunther

#3. Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

John Gunther

#4. I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

Howard Zinn

#5. Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

John Gunther

#6. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

#7. The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held dear. It's cast off without any thought whatsoever. But happiness, victory, and life are sacred because they are fleeting and stingily measured.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

John Gunther

#9. I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. I let out a gasp at the surprise with him getting to me so fast. It was kind of dating superman in that way, and instead of the cape and spandex, I got wings and a Armani suit!

Stephanie Hudson

#11. The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn't blonde.

Anna Faris

#13. [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

John Gunther

#14. One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

John Gunther

#15. What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

John Gunther

#16. I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer ... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

Michael Palin

#17. Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

John Gunther

#18. He was trying to save both his faces.

John Gunther

#19. Live while you live, then die and be done with.

John Gunther

#20. It had been impossible to get away from her own darkness. Or so she thought.
Here she was basking in the light of a beautiful bad man.

V. Theia

#21. It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

John Gunther

#22. Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

John Gunther

#23. God grant our new may inwrap our old!

George MacDonald

#24. Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

John Gunther

#25. If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

Mark Hart

#26. The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

John Gunther

#27. Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

John Gunther

#28. The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

John Gunther

#29. I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

Michael Johnson

#30. Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

Matt Gonzalez

#31. I am in a constant stage of development.

Ridley Scott

#32. I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

John Gunther

#33. To have little is to possess.

Laozi

#34. This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

Sarah Wylie

#35. There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

John Gunther

#36. France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn't care who knows it.

John Gunther

#37. Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

John Gunther

#38. What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

John Gunther