Newspapering Quotes & Sayings

Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize. — Ellen Hopkins

The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts. — David Simon

Positive stress, negative stress, - stress no less. It's all in how you manage your energies. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune. — Mahatma Gandhi

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been. — Mariel Zagunis

in order to see, we must first open our eyes. — Charles F. Glassman

In a society as mobile as your own, many people are totally anonymous to those around them. They do not care what they do before strangers or to strangers. If one feels no shame, punishment only angers. If one feels shame, punishment is almost unnecessary. Logically, therefore, your prisons should seek to instill shame, but even if it were possible, it would offend your civil libertarians to do so. "Shaming" others is considered an affront to their dignity. — Sheri S. Tepper

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living. — P. J. O'Rourke

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real. — Donald Wills Douglas

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to
mankind, which are delivered down from generation to
generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn — Joseph Addison

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. — Paracelsus

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although one sixpence is as good as another sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one anymore. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight. — George MacDonald

Like so many others of my tenure and temperament - stubborn ancients, I suppose - web reporting is anathema to everything I love about newspapering: getting a tip, developing leads, fleshing-out the details, then telling the story. Now it stops with the tip. Just verify (hopefully!) and post it. I didn't write stories anymore; I 'produced content. — Chris Rose

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio. — Nayvadius Cash

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin