Journalist Quotes

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

No two wars are identical.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

I will never retire.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.