Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvador Dali

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

Kevin Smith

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

Karl Kraus

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

John Luke

Front desk clerks at Hilton are generally empowered to listen to any reasonable request. We probably wouldn't treat you to a $500 dinner for two, but if you're walked from the New York Hilton and Towers, we might take you over in our limo to a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,

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.

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Maureen Dowd

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

Mason Cooley

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Jim Hightower

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

John Shanley

There is probably, if anything, a shortage of availability of styles.