Journalese Quotes & Sayings

Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time. — Alfred Hitchcock

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. — Junius

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you. — Philip Mallory Conley

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo." — Ambrose Bierce

It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit. — Joy Harjo

Humid the air! Leafless, yet soft as spring. The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty's heightening. Lovely all the time she lies ... — Matthew Arnold

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. — Margaret Bourke-White

It's the best deal - of - of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And - at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can. — Barack Obama

Transformation Ideas are many a penny,executioners are few & lonely;They use their arsenal sharply .to bring out rewards unworldly. — LAD NOMAD

I say! That's rather racy. Jolly good stuff, what? — Gustav Jorgenson

I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible. — Katherine Jenkins