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John Gunther quotes

Ocupation: Journalist

Life: August 30, 1901 - May 29, 1970

Birthday: August 30

Death: May 29

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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Topics: Happiness, Food, Breakfast, Delicious Food, Eating Food

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Topics: Country, Ideas, Patriotism, American Patriotism, American Patriot

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

Topics: Liars, Cameras

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

source: - John Gunther (1962). “A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books”

Topics: Essence, Want, Firsts

Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

Topics: Interesting, Community, Arkansas

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

Topics: Coffee, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Topics: Golf, Balls, Green, Golf Ball, Hopping

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

source: - JOHN GUNTHER (1958). “INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY”

Topics: War, Cities, Shoes

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

Topics: Cities, Forever, Chicago, Daily News, Gaudy

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

Topics: New York, Stars, Rain, Macedonia, New York City

God is what's good in me.

source: - JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”

Topics: Glory

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

Topics: Kissing, Old And New

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

Topics: Men, Impact, Color, Appraisal

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

source: - JOHN GUNTHER “DEATH BE NOT PROUD”

Topics: Littles, Little Time

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

Topics: Thieves, What Is Life

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

Topics: Done

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Topics: Cutting, Selfishness, Generalization

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

Topics: Ironic, Superstitions, Facts

He was trying to save both his faces.

Topics: Sarcastic, Trying, Faces

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

Topics: Respect, New York, Cities, Superlatives

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

Topics: Water, West

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

Topics: Country, World, Care

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