Old Reporter Sayings

#1. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves

Mike Bartos

#2. I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

Karen Traviss

#3. Well behaved women do not make history.

Mae West

#4. It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

Fred Rogers

#5. Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

Vince Gill

#6. But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?

Suzanne Collins

#7. I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Anita Roddick

#8. To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me.

H.A. Kotys

#9. From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#10. As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Andy Rooney

#11. They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

Curtis Joseph

#12. We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

Jackson Katz

#13. If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam

#14. Certainly war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity.

Markus Zusak

#15. Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy

Hanif Kureishi

#16. This is Margaret Brown; boy did she put on a show!" Agnes

Sharon Karaa

#17. O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

Langston Hughes

#18. While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Friedrich Hayek

#19. Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

Anna Sui