If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
Link Appleyard: Did you know Liberty Valance is in town tonight? Dutton Peabody: I'd be a poor newspaperman indeed if I didn't know what everybody knows!
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who dr...
When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at ...
A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there...
The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse...
