Daisy Bates Quotes

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

- William Safire

Journalist

· USA

• Reading
• Writing

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

- Mary Schmich

Journalist

• Chicago
• Medicine
• Pain

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

- Wolf Blitzer

Journalist

• Goal
• Viewers

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

- David Harsanyi

Journalist

• Initiative
• Levels

If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

- Charles Seife

Journalist

• Believe
• Numbers
• Stupid

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

- Jeannette Walls

Journalist

· USA

• Get Better

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

- Richard J. Needham

Journalist

· Canada

• Prayer

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don’t have to worry about the answers.

- Hunter S. Thompson

Journalist

· USA

• Asking
• Worry

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

- Mark Steyn

Journalist

· Canada

• Accomplish

Being a novelty had its advantages.

- Jessica Savitch

Journalist

• Advantage
• Novelty