Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Michael Isikoff

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

Mort Kondracke

Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases.

Robert Scheer

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Jim McKay

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

John Chancellor

The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.

Brit Hume

I think that to the extent that the president flinched, he flinched on this point, and that is he decided it had to be a woman and/or a minority.

Kin Hubbard

Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.

Jim McKay

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

Jeff Gannon

I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.

Jeff Gannon

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

George Plimpton

I think people are aware of how varied and interesting his life was-always at the center of things-as well as aspects of his decline.

Margaret Carlson

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

It doesn't mean we shouldn't mention a Lebanese cabinet crisis, for example, but we don't have to spend two minutes with it from the Middle East.

Glenn Close

I thought it was astounding that a woman was censured for wanting to just take up photography. I thought, my, how the world has changed.

Katie Couric

Joining CBS is a unique opportunity that came at the right time for me. I'm thrilled to become part of the rich tradition of CBS News.

It is crazy to have Judith Miller in jail.

Jack Kelley

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted. I tried to approach each and every story like it was my first and last.

Connie Chung

I don't know what all of us can do to continue to press for more women, more minorities, but it's just something that we all have to work on.

Bob Schieffer

I'd covered the campaign in 1988, and I'd managed to gain an even 20 pounds, which is one of the dangers you have covering those campaigns.

Michael Wilbon

Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

I like to live as big as I can.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.