"Interviewer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself by the superb invention of Salome, he never forgets his hatred of its author. It is characteristic that he hammered beauty from the gold he would have battered into caricature. Salome has survived other criticism and other caricature. And Mr. Lane once informed an American interviewer that since that April Fool's Day poetry has ceased to sell altogether. The bards unconsciously committed suicide; and the Yellow Book perished in the ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... the interviewer, "don't you remember that house was headquarters of the Federal Army? How could colored people ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
... a letter from Dymes. He wrote that a certain newspaper wished for an 'interview' with Mrs. Rolfe, to be published next week. Should the interviewer call upon her, and, if so, when? Moreover, an illustrated paper wanted her portrait with the least possible delay. Were her new photographs ready? If so, would she send him a dozen? Better still if he could see her today, for he had important things to speak of. Might he look for ...
— The Whirlpool • George Gissing
... valuable to the interviewer, photographer, and proprietor of a Magazine in due proportion. Is it not high time that the Celebrities themselves have a slice or two out of the cake? If they consent to sit as models to the interviewer and photographer, let them price their own time. The Baron offers ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., October 25, 1890 • Various
... hear, or perhaps did not care to. We jogged comfortably along, to my relief, leaving the young man far behind. I avoid reporters on principle, having learned long ago that I am an easy mark for a clever interviewer. ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... editorial upon Mademoiselle de la Valliere. But the King considered it highly impertinent of American journals to make any personal comment whatever upon majesty, and had almost burst a blood-vessel when approached soon after his arrival by an interviewer from ...
— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.
... Once the interviewer stopped asking personal questions, Captain Smith would talk of the sea, of his love for it, how its appeal to him as a ...
— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various
... the interviewer, "and the whole difficulty is—you are too mean to go to the ladies' room and pay or ...
— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
... the cook came in with a card. "'Renshaw Liggett,'" said Mrs. Archie "I don't know him. Do you, Archie? It must be an interviewer. Ask him to come ...
— Death At The Excelsior • P. G. Wodehouse
... seems to me that the conditions under which such a visit is paid and received are radically unsatisfactory. The person interviewed must be more or less uncomfortably self-conscious, and one cannot help doubting whether the interviewer ever succeeds in seeing his subject and his subject's surroundings in exactly their normal dishabille. It would ask more than Roman virtue not to make the best of one's self and one's house when both ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 • Various
... interviewer, jerking his arm from the painter's grasp, fled from the studio, and the ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... interviewer first visited Uncle John he was busy cutting hay for a white family nearby, swinging the scythe with the vigor of a young man. In late afternoon he was found sitting on the doorsteps of his granddaughter's house after a supper which ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various |
