Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orrin Hatch

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

Peter Bart

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

Peter Bart

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Peter Bart

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

Peter Bart

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Tina Brown

I sat next to an actor who told me he didn't know anything about John Kerry except he had been a doctor. I realized it truly is another planet.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Norman Cousins

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Julius Schwartz

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

Ben Bradlee

They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.

Tina Brown

I just wanted to have fun for myself-I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

Julius Schwartz

All I know is, when I did it in the Justice League, the summer issues, they sold many percentage points higher than any other issues of the year.

William White

Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish.

Al-Jazeera should not go unanswered in the Middle East.

Horace Greeley

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

Norman Cousins

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.