Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Zappa

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

Claire Coffee

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

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.

Dave Barry

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

David Remnick

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,

Cecily Strong

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

Charles Kuralt

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

Denise Mina

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Amy Adams

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Tony Lentini

Most of our oil production is shut in, and about 80 percent of our natural gas.

Brad Zeigel

Whitney is pretty natural back there, but she'd rather be on the field.

Bebe Neuwirth

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Mike Greene

Well, if you have a goalie like Colin, it's a natural choice. We don't plan on high-scoring games. It's just not what we plan to do.

Jean Baudrillard

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

Mike Williams

We gutted the entire building, ... The only things left were the exterior walls, the columns and the floors.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate.

Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

Charlie Pierce

In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Brad Ausmus

Do it. You don't let the facts get in the way of one of your columns anyway.

Yumei Wang

To any engineer looking at this, you would have immediate concerns because the columns are skinny and spaced far apart.

Idriss Deby

The rebel columns have been entirely destroyed and there is now only some light weapon fire near the National Assembly, but the situation is now completely under control.

Gregory Benford

Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.