One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.
"John Gunther" was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily through a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books (1936-1972). He is best known today for the memoir Death Be Not Proud (book)/Death Be Not Proud about the death of his teenage son, Johnny Gunther, from a brain tumor.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More John Gunther on Wikipedia.I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
Perhaps the entire harrowing episode would make his brain even finer, subtler, and more sensitive than it was.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
It's just a great event that we participate in every year and it's a great time.
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.
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