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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. -- Karl Kraus
Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it. -- Russell Baker
Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'. -- Harry Redknapp
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. -- Georgie Anne Geyer
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course. -- Warren Ellis
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. -- Arthur Miller
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! -- Jimmy Breslin
I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol. -- Bill Callahan
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. -- Russell Lynes
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts. -- Frederick Wiseman
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. -- Marguerite Duras
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. -- Mort Sahl
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world. -- Henry R. Luce
A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. -- Garrison Keillor
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. -- Jacky Ickx
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. -- Diane Sawyer
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. -- Glenn Danzig
If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information. -- Wolf Blitzer
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. -- Tom Stoppard
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain. -- Bill Nighy
It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say. -- Rik Mayall
Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist. -- Jill Dando
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to! -- Humbert Wolfe
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction. -- David Remnick
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. -- Clive Owen
Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time. -- James Carville
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. -- Emraan Hashmi
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. -- Norman Mailer
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. -- Richard Branson
I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards. -- Conrad Black
I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. -- Terry Pratchett
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. -- Henry Anatole Grunwald
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. -- Kate Adie
Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified. -- Randy Bachman
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world. -- Samantha Power
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? -- Bill Moyers
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. -- Jose Mourinho
Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite. -- Charles McGrath
Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations. -- Janine di Giovanni
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. -- Janet Malcolm
In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' -- Naomi Wolf
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. -- Jim Webb
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth. -- Helen Thomas
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness. -- Kathy Griffin
Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. -- Tom Sizemore
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. -- Rob Sheffield
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There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement. -- Steve Carell
Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one. -- Ian Mckellen
The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet... -- Samuel L. Jackson
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press. -- John F. Kennedy
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees. -- Marguerite Duras
Never trust a journalist. -- Wendy Cope
My father was a journalist. -- Daniel Snyder
Bad manners make a journalist. -- Oscar Wilde
I used to be a journalist. -- Terry Hayes
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. -- Werner Herzog
I see myself as a recovering journalist. -- Annalena McAfee
I've been a financial journalist for 30 years. -- Peter Brimelow
Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a depressing business talking to journalist. -- Antony Gormley
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda. -- Shepard Smith
Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity. -- Rebecca Mead
I am not insecure about being a journalist. -- Tucker Carlson
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I always wanted to be a serious journalist. -- Jeannette Walls
Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist. -- Hugh Jackman
I'm a journalist and that's what I do. -- Jim Lehrer
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth. -- Honore de Balzac
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. -- Jim Harrison
I would never let myself knock out a journalist. -- Gerard Depardieu
A journalist is a reporter out of a job. -- Mark Twain
As a journalist, your job is to bear witness. -- Anthony Shadid
Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist. -- Kathy Griffin
As a journalist, the details always tell the story. -- James McBride
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. -- Karl Kraus
Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist. -- Robert Fisk
Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful. -- Fred Armisen
I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise. -- Christopher Hitchens
Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist, -- Robert Fisk
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. -- Otto von Bismarck
Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist? -- Liam Neeson
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me. -- Joey Skaggs
I wanted to be a journalist for a long time. -- Jamie Bell
I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do. -- Candy Crowley
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. -- H. G. Wells
I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist. -- Nanci Griffith
I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. -- Jim Crace
I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions. -- David Gregory
a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist) -- Gore Vidal
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits -- Peter Jennings
The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman. -- William Thomas Stead
Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist. -- Bernard Goldberg
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist. -- Lena Dunham
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all. -- Phil Donahue
Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. -- Jonathan Lynn
My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. -- Ginger Rogers
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. -- Karl Kraus
I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters. -- Kathryn Harrison
You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. -- Michael Pollan
I'm a journalist; I run to the fire, that's what we do. -- Shepard Smith
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes. -- Patricia Marx
I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist]. -- Khushwant Singh
A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know. -- Steig Larsson
Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio. -- Robin Williams
Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy. -- Nora Ephron
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. -- George Bernard Shaw
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse. -- May Sinclair
The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights. -- John C. Dvorak
Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin. -- Pete Earley
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. -- Hunter S. Thompson
My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist. -- Linwood Barclay
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time -- Karl Kraus
I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul. -- Jane Yolen
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers. -- Bill Keller
I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist. -- Bernie Ecclestone

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