Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jim Lehrer

My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I'm very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Wilbon

Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

Harrison Salisbury

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

Ray Stannard Baker

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Ray Stannard Baker

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

Mark Shields

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

Mark Shields

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

Mark Shields

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.