Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are 4 kinds of homicide; felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Henri Poincare

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

Henri Poincare

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

Henri Poincare

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincare

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

David Talbot

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

David Talbot

I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

David Talbot

I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.

David Talbot

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.

Gwen Ifill

Tony Blair barely escaped this year, and now George W. Bush, if elections were to be held today, would be in a serious challenge as well.

Tom Brokaw

We all made each other better at what we do. And we had a common DNA, if you will: We were all reporters first and anchors second.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.

Michael Gartner

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

Michael Isikoff

We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.

Jane Mayer

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.

Mignon McLaughlin

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Bill Kurtis

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

Dan Rather

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dorothy Thompson

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Dix

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

Dorothy Dix

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

Judy Woodruff

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

Tom Brokaw

There has been some research, by the way, that shows that, as people are coming up into their parenting ages, they gravitate back to the evening news.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Anderson Cooper

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.