Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

P. J. O'Rourke

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Karl Kraus

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

Karl Kraus

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

Robert Lowell

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

Muhammad Ali

If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad

Patrick Rothfuss

There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

P. J. Harvey

Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

Anne Spencer

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

F. Schumacher

You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.

Michael Korda

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Lee Hazlewood

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Hassan Rouhani

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

George W. Bush

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.