Journalist Quotes

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Nothing remains.  The destruction is complete: love, lives, families, friends, cities, homes – all gone now.  All our efforts to be good, to do the right thing, to act well, to be just and generous are now for naught.  Because juxtaposed against any hope for fairness is wickedness, pure and simple.  In some abstract formulation these things may exist in equal measure, which is to say that the scales balance when taking all things into consideration. But that is fantasy, the stuff of religion, hope beyond all reason. Because for those caught in the whirlwind, in the chaos of manifest evil, despair is all there is. Civilization falls away: everything is pointless now.  Survival requires reciprocity. What then if there is none?”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

“London. “Look Olivier. Quite a sight isn’t it?” Commandant Auguste Angers stood tall in his stirrups as he pointed out the far distant dome of St. Paul’s. The bronzed roof of the cathedral was glistening in the sun during a brief break in the clouds. The commandant and his colleague and deputy, Captain Olivier Rougemont, had enjoyed a morning’s exhilarating ride in Richmond Park. The commandant was riding his favourite grey, Chloe, and Rougemont was on his boss’s second string, a chestnut Annette.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy: A classic espionage thriller full of intrigue and suspense

“She (the little Naga woman – Ma Roi) told him (Captain Gribble) of hundreds of refugees being held up at the Namyung river, and planes unable to drop supplies because of the weather: “Please hurry to Tagap Ga,” she pleaded, “We will show you the way. All the rivers will soon be in flood, trees will be blown down, the track curling up and down the steep sides of the mountain will be obliterated.” She concluded with great emphasis, “There are four big rivers to cross!”. “The situation is becoming dreadfully complicated by the weather,” I said to myself, “the outlook is horrible.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”
― Lee shippey

“Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.”
― Orji Uzor Kalu

“When it comes to arrogance, power, and lack of accountability, journalists are probably the only people on the planet who make lawyers look good.”
― Steven Brill

“The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a journalist.”
― Jack Kerouac, Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

“Do you know what a journalist is? Someone who hasn't written a novel yet.”
― Lavie Tidhar, Osama

“好的小故事，多數會令人覺得「意料之外，情理之中」。爛的故事只要說到一半已被人猜到，往往因為太過陳腔濫調（cliché）。這些故事都熟口熟面，走不出套路，例如車禍中喪命的一定是「好爸爸」，身患殘疾的人總是「生命鬥士」 … 若記者未抵達現場已經知道故事是甚麼，那並不是採訪，而是將預先設定的想法套在別人身上，於是出來的故事總是刻板、僵化、陳腔。記者必須帶著開放態度，做足資料搜集，再去現場親身觀察、訪問、思考，才能找到有趣的小故事。”
― 譚蕙芸, 文字欲 回應時代的特寫新聞

“FACTUALIZED FICTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN FICTIONALISED FACTS.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.”
― Germany Kent

“brain fart: (n.) noxious gas emitted when mainstream journalists commit their thoughts to paper.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“Informer'... means one who gives information. It means what 'journalist' ought to mean. The only difference is that the Common Informer may be paid if he tells the truth. The common journalist will be ruined if he does.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“I turn to look at Jake. “You’re running from a bunch of eight-year-olds?”
The rambunctious groups starts to point at the library and clamors toward the door, ready to enter.
Jake looks at me. “They scare me. Can you please help me out?”
― Leslea Wahl, The Perfect Blindside

“I'm a Citizen Journalist, but I'm not a muckraker all the time. In the fall I rake leaves.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“There is still the old Remington typewriter that my Uncle, a journalist, has in my hometown. When I was in school, I would love typing letters on this typewriter. I love the sound of the typewriter keys hitting on paper.”
― Avijeet Das

“Menjadi wartawan yang netral, berarti telah berkontribusi dalam memberikan manfaat untuk khalayak. Saat ada spiral kebisuan di antara mereka yang minoritas karena tertelan pendapat mayoritas, maka tugas wartawan untuk mengangkat fanomena itu. Wartawanlah yang membingkai suatu kondisi masyarakat yang tidak tersuarakan, menjadi lebih terdengar.”
― Ayu Welirang, Mata Pena

“Make journalism the vanguard of information.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

“When a journalist is a pathological liar. Every breaking news is a cooked-up story.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“A journalist may think he or she is breaking a story, but the journalist is seldom aware of the hidden agenda behind it. Journalists are often used by cops, politicians, gangsters and film stars to propagate their agenda.”
― Jigna Vora, Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison

“I also realized that the media was ruthless enough to relentlessly chase one of their own if it made prime-time news.”
― Jigna Vora, Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison

“​In a free state, there should always be an inquirer asking on behalf of the people”
― John Norvell

“I ordered one more and the bartender made a deal with me. He'd only splash whiskey on my ice if I gave him my car keys. That sounded like a good deal to me and I took it.

"Death is my beat"

"Technically, I don't work for you. My paper has rules about reporters misrepresenting themselves."
Schifino reached into his pocket and pulled out his cash. He handed a dollar across the desk to me. I reached across the murder scene photos to take it.
"There," he said. "I just paid you a dollar. You work for me."

I thought he was guilty as sin. It was the only way I could live with losing the case.

Abasiophilia.
Paraphilia.
Single-Bullet Theory: "I mean like the love of your life. Everybody's got one person out there. One bullet. And if you're lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you're shot through the heart, then there's nobody else. No matter what happens--death, divorce, infidelity, whatever--nobody else can ever come close. That's the single-bullet theory."

Unrelenting pain. He waited for someone to stop it. To save him from it. But no one came. No one heard him.
He waited in darkness.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“There's extreme violence, but there's a will to find who these people really are. And I think that's what's really inspiring about it.”
― James Foley

“I've come to believe that if we start each day from a place of gratitude, then it's bound to go a bit better than it wouldn't if we didn't.”
― Maria Shriver

“He kissed me and now I am someone else.”
― Gabriela Mistral

“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.”
― Frank McKinney Hubbard (Kin Hubbard)