Reporters Quotes

What, Rudolph wasn’t available?

~ Sierra Donovan

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a rocket. War is a human activity far too large to be contained in the experience of a single reporter in a single place and time in any meaningful way. When it comes, it happens to everyone. Everything is in its path. Yet this is the allure of war reporting, the chance of acquiring some personal mother lode of truth to beam back to the living rooms of a waiting nation. The fear that comes from reporting on a war is as much a fear of missing this mother load as it is of being injured or killed in battle, and it sets reporters apart from the people who have to fight wars. Soldiers have their own agonies to think about as a battle approaches. Missing the war is not generally one of them.

~ John Hockenberry

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

~ Anthony Trollope

The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.

~ Missy Lyons

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

~ Nalini Singh

I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.

~ Dan Groat

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

~ Thomas Boswell

When I left her office, I felt like she'd gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut to the jaw, picked me up, brushed me off again, then kicked me in the seat of my pants as she handed me a piece of cake and showed me the door.Being a reporter isn't as easy as it looks.

~ Christopher Paul Curtis

...the ravenous monsters men called reporters, sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

~ Christopher G. Nuttall

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.

~ J.d. Robb

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

~ Lee Marvin

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

~ Anastasiya Kotelnikova

Reporters trade in pain. It sells papers. Everyone knows that.

~ Jonathan Maberry

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.

~ Evelyn Waugh

A moment from another world! Imagine a reporter dictating an exclusive story, a lead story, sourced from the President of the United States, from a telephone just off the White House dance floor to the strains of Lester Lanin's dance band.

~ Ben Bradlee

Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.''Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going on, it’s a newspaper office.

~ Jack Iams

Quit your bitching, if you're not pitching

~ Rebecca Aguilar

If you're not pitching, stop bitching

~ Rebecca Aguilar