Reporters Quotes - Page 11

• Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

  James Taylor

  Want, Photographer, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Air, Yesterday, Gone

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• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Stories, Good Things

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• Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trust, Cutting, Sunday

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• In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'

  Kevin Barry

  Teenager, Kids, Cities

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• And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

  Jet Li

  Thinking, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

  Evan Davis

  Senior, Mean, Editors

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• I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Asking, Soft Drinks, Kind

  Quoted in Bert Sugar, Book of Sports Quotes (1979)

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• My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.

  Joan Didion

  Running, People, Forget

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 04, 2011

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• The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

  Howard Rheingold

  Internet Access, Cnn, People

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• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Imagination, Journalism

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• Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

  Charles Kuralt

  Growing Up, Kids, Firefighter

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• Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

  Charles Kuralt

  Romantic Love, Would Be, Looks

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• When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

  Charles Kuralt

  Father, Hate, Boys

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• People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

  Bill Kurtis

  People, World, Towns

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• I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

  Neil LaBute

  Lying, Ideas, Deceit

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• I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.

  Jim Lehrer

  Literature, Print

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

  Jay Leno

  Anchors, White, House

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• In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Boys, College

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• It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

  Jonathan Alter

  Powerful, Thinking, Littles

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• It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

  Saul Perlmutter

  Morning, Interesting, Wake Up

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• The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

  Dexter Filkins

  Ignorance, Army, Years

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• At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

  Carl Bernstein

  Heart, White, House

  Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1999). “All the President's Men”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

  Dan Abrams

  Host, Shows, Talk Shows

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• Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Stories, May

  Bob Woodward (2005). “The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat”, Large Print Press

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