Press Reporters Quotes

#1. When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

Helen Thomas

#2. That's the thing with life; whenever there's a real proper decision to be made, there's never anybody around but you.

Lee Evans

#3. The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Chris Hedges

#4. The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.

Glenn Greenwald

#5. At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.

Pete Rozelle

#6. When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

Charles Kuralt

#7. Local reporters going out on the press-bus each day for the carefully staged "player interviews," that Dolphin tackle Manny Fernandez described as "like going to the dentist every day to have the same tooth filled,

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?

Sarah Stillman

#9. The most elemental difference between the machine and the garden is that one is driven by a force which must be introduced from without, the other grown by an energy which originates from within itself.

Steven Pinker

#10. Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

Alan Cox

#11. There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

Ronald Steel

#12. Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

Brother Lawrence

#13. Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Joey Skaggs

#14. 15 When he b calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and c honor him. 16 With d long life I will satisfy him and e show him my salvation.

Anonymous

#15. Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.

Raheel Farooq

#16. A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

James Fallows

#17. The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

Lin Yutang

#18. My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.

William Shakespeare

#19. The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

Bruce Jackson

#20. My dreams about finding a place to create true, meaningful friendships around my fake video game world had come true.

Felicia Day

#21. Like the scorpion's question mark
drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight

Aime Cesaire

#22. Clinton ... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

Bob Woodward

#23. True love of others, according to Jesus, flows out of a love of God. The service of our lives flow out of the loving relationship we have with God. Too often we desire our service to create a loving relationship with God. Yet God does not seek after us because of any good deeds we have done.

Tyler Braun

#24. There's a metaphor in that somewhere - like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expect, and learning to just be happy with it.

Lauren Oliver

#25. When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

Kate Adie

#26. The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

Stephen Kinzer

#27. I'm so private and I don't know why!

China Chow

#28. An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

Alain De Botton

#29. Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?

Jack Palance