Famous Quotes & Sayings

An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Julius Schwartz

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Julius Schwartz

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

Norman Cousins

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

William Allen White

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

William Allen White

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

Ben Bradlee

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

Ben Bradlee

They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

Ben Bradlee

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

Ben Bradlee

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

Ben Bradlee

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

Ben Bradlee

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

Ben Bradlee

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

Ben Bradlee

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

Ben Bradlee

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.

Daniel Okrent

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

Daniel Okrent

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.

Daniel Okrent

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

Daniel Okrent

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

Daniel Okrent

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.