Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Wright

The American sentiment after 9-11, the heartbreak, the fear and the anger, all of that was used to get us into Iraq and I think that's incredibly cynical for them to have done that,

Mitch McConnell

I think that's the most cynical view," ()

Winona Ryder

He said, 'I'm just grateful for the work'. I thought he would be cynical like me, but he had this immense gratitude.

Tony Leung

He is cynical because he doesnt want to get hurt. You can find the original Chow when hes alone. You feel his sadness and his loneliness. When hes with other people, he seems to be happy. But deep down, hes still living with his past.

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Alan Rusbridger

So I think it is wise to be extremely cynical about what you are being told, even from your own government.

Zac Goldsmith

I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

Mike Birbiglia

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.

Nikki Reed

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not... I was a really cynical child.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Frank Zappa

Most rock journalism is people who can not write interviewing people who can not talk

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Claire Coffee

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Eduardo Galeano

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

Dan Rather

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

M. Wolfe

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing

Najam Sethi

Given the normal cynicism of Pakistanis, something like this has never happened. I think the scale of the disaster is something that has touched everyone to the core.

Bob Newhart

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

Newt Gingrich

There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.

Robin S. Sharma

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Pauline Marois

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

Colum McCann

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Albert Camus

Happiness too is inevitable.