Allan Sloan famous quotes

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
-- Allan Sloan

#Sarcastic #Writing #Sarcasm

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
-- Allan Sloan

#Jobs #Writing #Years

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
-- Allan Sloan

#Teamwork #Isolation #Columnists

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
-- Allan Sloan

#Gold #Mediocrity #Columns

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
-- Allan Sloan

#Thinking #Columnists

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
-- Allan Sloan

#Way #Source #Columnists

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
-- Allan Sloan

#Powerful #Careers #People

I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!
-- Allan Sloan

#People #Looks #Faults

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost they feel they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.