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Quotes by Journalist
"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
"If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf."
"Playing golf is like learning a foreign language."
"Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting."
"John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket."
"They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?"
"We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future."
"Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment."
"The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team."
"The one I was driving for at the time, Nissan, they pulled out after they won the championship, because it was costing millions of pounds to do a national championship and ok, that might be ok when you're doing an international championship, but not for a national one."
"Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship."
"It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team."
"From where started, I think it is too far down to try and win a championship at the end of the season, although we had a very good first race at Mondello and scored some good points."
"It's a good team though that works very closely and very well together, and all those people putting that effort in, then I'm sure we will improve dramatically from where we are now as the season goes on."
"The ultimate umpire of all things in life is Fact."
"You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst."
Rain,
"The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small."
"Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being."
"If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism."
"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is 'take-home pay' because home is the only place they can afford to go with it."
"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do."
Risk,
"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."
"Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each."
"If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice."
"All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it."
"A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing."
"The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our history."
"Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge."
"Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex."
"I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter."
"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
"Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar.""
"Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical."
Past,
"Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar."
"Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half."
"Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside."
"Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again."
"That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts."
"Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004."
"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."
"Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place."
"Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love."
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