Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
--KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883–1931)
All truth is not to be told at all times.
--PROVERB
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
--Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
--David Frost
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
--Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
--Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
--Jerry Seinfeld
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
--A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
--Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
--G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
--Jimmy Breslin
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
--Norman Mailer (1923 - ), "Esquire", June 1960
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
--Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
ON TRUTH
Isaiah 59:14 (Message Bible)
Justice is beaten back,
Righteousness is banished to the sidelines,
Truth staggers down the street,
Honesty is nowhere to be found,
Proverbs 12:17 (Message Bible)
Truthful witness by a good person clears the air,
but liars lay down a smoke screen of deceit.
Proverbs 12:19 (Message Bible)
Truth lasts;
lies are here today, gone tomorrow.
John 14:6 (New Living Translation)
Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
The Cross is God’s truth about us, and therefore it is the only power which can make us truthful. When we know the Cross, we are no longer afraid of the truth.
--DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (1906–1945)
God gives us the will wherewith to will, and the power to use it, and the help needed to supplement the power . . . but we ourselves must will the truth, and for that the Lord is waiting.
--GEORGE MACDONALD (1824–1905)
Let truth, light of my heart, and not the shadows within me speak to me! I slid down into that state and was in darkness, but even from there I loved you. I strayed and yet I remembered you. I heard your voice behind me, telling me to return, but I heard only faintly because of the uproar of the restless. And now I am returning, sweaty and out of breath, to your fountain. Let no one get in my way. I will drink this and I will live it. May I not be my life; I have lived badly on my own.
I was my own death. I revive in you. Speak to me; discuss with me. I have believed your books and their words are full of mystery.
--SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354–430)
It is contrary to reason for a thirsty person to turn from a pure, sparkling mountain stream to quench his thirst at a stale, putrid cistern—yet that is what the human race does when it rejects God’s truth and standards in favor of the devil’s impure philosophies.
--BILLY GRAHAM (1918– )
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