Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Richelle Mead

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

William Zinsser

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

William Whewell

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

Samuel P. Huntington

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

Samuel P. Huntington

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Samuel P. Huntington

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

Will Self

Things are only boring if you are boring.

Markus Persson

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

Lillie White

I rearrange furniture at home all the time, at least three or four times a year. It gets boring if you don't.

Yorg Kerasiotis

Incredible Consequence. We all love so many different kinds of music that it would be boring to have just one style.

Shelly King

Take parking monitors for instance. How boring would that be unless you had a friend to do it with you?

Janice King

The world sees Christians in a very boring way. We know the younger generation is reaching out to music and whatnot. The image needed to be cleaned up. You can go out and have fun and go to the movies. We spend our money on the same things everyone else does. God created it all, and he wants us all to enjoy it.

Mark Horstman

It means doing that day-to-day boring management task of staying in touch with people.

John Russell

It makes math and stuff more fun than writing on a boring chalkboard.

Joel Androphy

It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil one. This has become a document trial.