Muckraking Journalist Quotes

#1. He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, "willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#3. Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.

Johnny Winter

#4. One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracles without believing that every reported miracle must in fact have happened.

Robert M. Price

#5. It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

Albert Camus

#6. The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. If you write a phrase and think, 'Wow, that's really poetic, that's really pretty, I really nailed it,' you get rid of it [because] you've overdone it.

David Sedaris

#8. A life lived well gets messy,

Matthew Quick

#9. I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had.

Aspen Matis

#10. My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

Patti Page

#11. In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.

Lijia Zhang

#12. It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Don DeLillo

#13. What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

Sri Chinmoy

#14. My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it ... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.

Kevin Wilson

#15. Sometimes, those who put up the biggest shields are those who are protecting the biggest hearts. My Gram used to always say, if you want to know the size of a person's heart, look at how they treat animals or those that can offer them nothing in return.

Penelope Ward