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I put the Financial Times on the floor and called my dog
William over to pee on it. Wherever there was a mark I could do some trading.
- Bob Beckham
The essence of humor is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in
Punch.
- A.P.Herbert
Reality must take precedence over public relations; for nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard P. Feynman
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the
protagonists.
- Norman Mailer
I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and
as long as you spell my name right.
- George M. Cohan
You can fool all of the people some of the time; You can fool some of the people
all of the time; But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- A.J. Liebling
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on
its shoes.
- Mark Twain
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four
people make up 75% of the population.
- David Letterman
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa
Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective
terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died
down when the airplane was out of sight.
- Bertrand Russell
Journalism consists largely I saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew
Lord Jones was alive.
- G.K.Chesterton
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
- Edith Sitwell
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence, There's a knob
called brightness, but it doesn't work.
- Eugene P. Gallagher.
You say we [reporters] are distracting from the business of government. Well, I
hope so. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear
from eating your baby.
- P.J. O'Rourke
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere
in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
- Line from the TV show, "Taxi"
The only qualities for real success in journalism are rat-like cunning, a
plausible manner and a little literary ability. The capacity to steal other
people's ideas and phrases...is also invaluable.
- Nicolas Tomalin
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum
cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
- Harriet Van Horne
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the
headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Never trust a reporter who has a nice smile.
- William Rauch
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an
advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler
All television is children's television.
- Richard P. Adler
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth
knowing.
- Oscar Wilde
When they use a proctoscope it's going too far.
- Richard Nixon
Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.
- Doug Larson
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is
unreadable and literature is not read.
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