Newspapermen Quotes

#1. And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

Scott Westerfeld

#2. Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around.

Humphrey Bogart

#3. Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

Stephen Leacock

#4. I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#5. Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Sonny Liston

#6. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists.

Walter Cronkite

#7. I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Heather Brooke

#8. Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

Pete Hamill

#9. Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people.

Ken Follett

#10. The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.

Pete Hamill

#11. One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?

Jay Carr

#12. I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.

James Kaplan

#13. Grab what you can and fight your way to a lifeboat.' Everyone associated with the slow printed word is fast becoming the Great Crested Newt of the culture. First it was the poets, the playwrights, then the novelists. Veteran newspapermen are next.

Marisha Pessl

#14. All over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro-Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade-unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches,

Salman Rushdie

#15. Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They'll give up dreams for that.

Josephine Humphreys

#16. Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

Libba Bray

#17. Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

Neal A. Maxwell

#18. Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.

Adrian Tomine

#19. The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Mo Udall

#20. We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing.

Louise Hay

#21. All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

Gautama Buddha

#22. The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

Chris Hedges

#23. If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#24. Veil wouldn't make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.

Aaron Overfield

#25. Everything bad has ... you know, has a good.

Ross O'Donovan

#26. We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

Kwame Nkrumah

#27. The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.

Ted Sarandos

#28. Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James