#lists

They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office. ↗

— Tom Rachman

#journalists #journalist

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender. ↗

— Chelsea Cain

#serial-killers #suspense #journalist

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. ↗

— Joseph T. Hallinan

#depression #psychology #realists #psychology

When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#intelligence

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#enough #hope #journalists #keep #know

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#competition #employed #factors #female #following

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#attractive #capitalists #greater #labour #lower

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#because #editors #even #i #i think

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#did #doing #get #hooked #i