Newspaperman Quotes

#1. The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.

Art Buchwald

#3. He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah.

Pete Dexter

#4. If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

Anna Held

#5. Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!

Deyth Banger

#6. My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'

Pete Hamill

#7. To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.

Fred Allen

#8. So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Mark Twain

#9. The wrong way to go about this is to say: Well, researchers have 'proved' that animals only understand fifty words or something similarly absurd. Or that communication with other species is an illusion. Communication is not the preserve of humans; it is the one thing that is truly universal.

Lawrence Anthony

#10. The indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Norman Mailer

#11. A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

John F. Kennedy

#12. The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything.

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

Dan Jenkins

#14. People pay to see others believe in themselves.

Kim Gordon

#15. The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

Waverley Root

#16. One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.

Pete Hamill

#17. Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

Aime Cesaire

#18. You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.

George Hearst

#19. Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Adam Clymer

#20. There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

Andy Richter

#21. It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

David Simon

#22. I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

Irv Kupcinet

#23. There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.

Mark McCormack

#24. Hmm...which one of us has leprosy?."
"Both of us. Jill I'm a newspaperman.

Robert A. Heinlein

#25. God is A.W.E.S.O.M.E! HE is Always Working Extraordinary Supernatural On-time Miracles Everyday

Sommer Ellison

#26. I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

William P. Young

#27. When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

Stieg Larsson

#28. We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#29. In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

Douglas Wilson